diff --git a/src/routes/+layout.svelte b/src/routes/+layout.svelte
index 2f78417..07a2646 100644
--- a/src/routes/+layout.svelte
+++ b/src/routes/+layout.svelte
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@
 	/>
 	<meta property="twitter:image" content={featuredImage} />
 	<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json" />
+	<link rel="canonical" href="https://vert.sh/" />
 	{#if enablePlausible}
 		<script
 			defer
diff --git a/static/robots.txt b/static/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..42819c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+User-agent: *
+Allow: /
+
+# language urls (doesn't actually change language when visiting)
+# should prob be auto-generated?
+Disallow: /es/
+Disallow: /fr/
+Disallow: /de/
+Disallow: /it/
+Disallow: /hr/
+Disallow: /tr/
+Disallow: /ja/
+Disallow: /el/
+
+Sitemap: https://vert.sh/sitemap.xml
diff --git a/static/sitemap.xml b/static/sitemap.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d9ddd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/sitemap.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<urlset
+  xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
+  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
+
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://vert.sh/</loc>
+    <lastmod>2025-10-17T19:23:05+00:00</lastmod>
+    <priority>1.00</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://vert.sh/convert/</loc>
+    <lastmod>2025-10-17T19:23:05+00:00</lastmod>
+    <priority>0.80</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://vert.sh/settings/</loc>
+    <lastmod>2025-10-17T19:23:05+00:00</lastmod>
+    <priority>0.80</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://vert.sh/about/</loc>
+    <lastmod>2025-10-17T19:23:05+00:00</lastmod>
+    <priority>0.80</priority>
+  </url>
+  <url>
+    <loc>https://vert.sh/privacy/</loc>
+    <lastmod>2025-10-17T19:23:05+00:00</lastmod>
+    <priority>0.80</priority>
+  </url>
+</urlset>
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