{
  "name": "Shalom Shawn Indexing Checklist",
  "url": "https://shalomshawn.com/indexing-checklist.html",
  "generated_on": "2026-03-23",
  "description": "Recommended post-upload verification and indexing order for the official Shalom Shawn site, reference pages, release pages, song pages, and machine-readable files.",
  "domain": "https://shalomshawn.com/",
  "purpose": [
    "Post-upload crawl verification",
    "Search engine indexing order",
    "AI and machine-readable file validation",
    "Release and song layer discovery sequencing"
  ],
  "foundation_checks": [
    {
      "name": "robots.txt",
      "url": "https://shalomshawn.com/robots.txt",
      "reason": "Confirms crawl access and points to the sitemap."
    },
    {
      "name": "sitemap.xml",
      "url": "https://shalomshawn.com/sitemap.xml",
      "reason": "Lists the public pages, release pages, song pages, and machine-readable resources."
    },
    {
      "name": "llms.txt",
      "url": "https://shalomshawn.com/llms.txt",
      "reason": "Short AI-readable routing guide."
    },
    {
      "name": "llms-full.txt",
      "url": "https://shalomshawn.com/llms-full.txt",
      "reason": "Expanded AI-readable routing guide."
    },
    {
      "name": "artist-profile.json",
      "url": "https://shalomshawn.com/artist-profile.json",
      "reason": "Primary identity and official-pages JSON."
    },
    {
      "name": "reference-index.json",
      "url": "https://shalomshawn.com/reference-index.json",
      "reason": "Master machine-readable map of the official reference stack."
    },
    {
      "name": "indexing-checklist.json",
      "url": "https://shalomshawn.com/indexing-checklist.json",
      "reason": "Machine-readable version of this launch order."
    }
  ],
  "priority_groups": [
    {
      "name": "Core identity and summary pages",
      "priority": 1,
      "reason": "Teach crawlers the main entity and summary layer before the deeper catalog.",
      "urls": [
        "https://shalomshawn.com/",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/press-kit.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/official-links.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/reference-center.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/sound-themes.html"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Core catalog and hub pages",
      "priority": 2,
      "reason": "Expand into the release and song discovery layer after the entity pages are indexed.",
      "urls": [
        "https://shalomshawn.com/music.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/discography.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/songs.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/fragments-to-light.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/after-the-last-thought.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/manifested.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/self-the-forgetting.html"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Strongest current song pages",
      "priority": 3,
      "reason": "Start with the song pages that already have the strongest current site-level and artist-page support, then continue through the rest in batches.",
      "urls": [
        "https://shalomshawn.com/grip-the-flame.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/walk-the-fire.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/forgiveness.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/energy.html",
        "https://shalomshawn.com/cold-bench.html"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "machine_readable_validation": [
    "https://shalomshawn.com/release-catalog.json",
    "https://shalomshawn.com/release-pages.json",
    "https://shalomshawn.com/songs.json",
    "https://shalomshawn.com/song-pages.json",
    "https://shalomshawn.com/sound-themes.json"
  ],
  "monitoring_checks": [
    "Re-open the homepage, press kit, official links, reference center, sound themes, music, discography, and songs pages on the live domain after submission.",
    "Spot-check the four release pages and the highest-priority song pages after the core pages are indexed.",
    "If a page lags, confirm it is linked internally, listed in the sitemap, and using the canonical shalomshawn.com URL."
  ],
  "notes": [
    "This file is a site-authored indexing priority map, not a guarantee of search-engine behavior.",
    "Legacy content such as webapp.html should remain out of the active indexing priority path."
  ]
}