Canonical public pages
Canonical Smell Pages, editorial routes, evidence pages and trust pages can be indexed when they contain stable public content.
INDEXING POLICY
Make public pages discoverable without manufacturing search-engine noise.
SmellBook uses canonical URLs, deterministic sitemap dates and explicit indexing rules so the public atlas can be crawled without turning filters or search queries into duplicate pages.
Internal search
Search result pages are noindex,follow. Search is useful for visitors, but query variants should not become thousands of thin search-engine pages.
Canonical URLs
Every public page declares one canonical path. Query parameters and temporary UI states should not create alternate canonical identities.
Sitemap freshness
Sitemap dates use editorial update metadata or stable fallback dates. Builds do not pretend that every page changed today.
Evidence pages
Claims, sources, publishers and evidence-topic pages may be indexed because they expose stable public provenance.
Operations pages
Public statistics, milestones, freshness and taxonomy-health pages may be indexed because they document how the atlas is maintained.
Index stable public knowledge. Do not fake freshness or scale.
Search metadata should describe the content people actually see, and sitemap timestamps should represent editorial changes rather than deployment time.