diff --git a/hugo.yaml b/hugo.yaml
index 3a69253..425e4af 100644
--- a/hugo.yaml
+++ b/hugo.yaml
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ frontmatter:
 
 params:
   mainSections: ["post"]
+  description: "A blog documenting my homelab journey, covering automation, self-hosted services, and hands-on experiments with open source technologies."
   favicon: "/favicon-32x32.png"
 
   sidebar:
@@ -135,6 +136,11 @@ related:
       - name: categories
         weight: 20
 
+sitemap:
+  ChangeFreq: "weekly"
+  Priority: 0.6
+
+
 outputs:
   home:
     - HTML
diff --git a/layouts/404.html b/layouts/404.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf71bbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/404.html
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{{- define "main" -}}
+ <div class="FourOhFourCentered">
+    <h1>404 - Page Not Found</h1>
+    <p>Looks like the page you're looking for doesn't exist.</p>
+    <p><a href="/">Go back home</a></p>
+ </div>
+{{- end }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/layouts/_default/sitemap.xml b/layouts/_default/sitemap.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6e6c2c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layouts/_default/sitemap.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{{ printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>" | safeHTML }}
+<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" 
+        xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+  {{ range .Data.Pages }}
+    {{ if or (.IsPage) (.IsHome) }}
+    <url>
+        <loc>{{ .Permalink }}</loc>
+        {{ if not .Lastmod.IsZero }}
+            <lastmod>{{ safeHTML ( .Lastmod.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" ) }}</lastmod>
+        {{ end }}
+        {{ with .Sitemap.ChangeFreq }}
+            <changefreq>{{ . }}</changefreq>
+        {{ end }}
+        {{ if ge .Sitemap.Priority 0.0 }}
+            <priority>{{ .Sitemap.Priority }}</priority>
+        {{ end }}
+        {{ if .IsTranslated }}
+        {{ range .Translations }}
+        <xhtml:link
+                rel="alternate"
+                hreflang="{{ .Language.LanguageCode }}"
+                href="{{ .Permalink }}"
+        />
+        {{ end }}
+        <xhtml:link
+                rel="alternate"
+                hreflang="{{ .Language.LanguageCode }}"
+                href="{{ .Permalink }}"
+        />
+        {{ end }}
+    </url>
+    {{ end }}
+  {{ end }}
+</urlset>
diff --git a/static/robots.txt b/static/robots.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62bf119
--- /dev/null
+++ b/static/robots.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /tags/
+Disallow: /categories/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/themes/PaperMod b/themes/PaperMod
index 7cf752f..ee1e0f3 160000
--- a/themes/PaperMod
+++ b/themes/PaperMod
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 7cf752f8644fea1fc3dc7299352718d492c55182
+Subproject commit ee1e0f3aa3c3575a756c9b17be5823e21de09c30