Search, feeds and the rest

What every site gets, without anyone setting it up.

Found by search engines

Every page has a title (Make it yours · Foldocs), a description from its subtitle or first lines, and an address of its own (/guide/make-it-yours/). A sitemap lists every page with the day it last changed, so search engines know what is new.

Pages also describe themselves in structured data: who the site is by, which page is a post and when it was published, which is the About page, and the breadcrumbs to each. That is what rich search results are made of.

Shared well

A link pasted in a chat or a post unfolds into a preview with the page's title, description and image: its first photo, or the theme's share image. Try it with this page.

Followed by feed

The newest pages are in a feed: add the site's address to any feed reader, and every new document arrives by itself.

Readable by everyone

  • Meets the WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility guidelines: contrast, headings, landmarks, a skip link, a visible focus, alt text
  • Made for phones first, with a dark mode that follows yours
  • Fast: about 100 kilobytes a page, images in the size the screen needs

Out of sight while you work

While a site is a draft, one setting asks search engines to stay away, on every page.