How does the metadata help search engines find my work?

Creative Commons publishes machine-readable metadata that, when embedded in your work's web page, lets search engines and tools recognize the license without parsing prose.

That's how the Creative Commons search engine, image search filters in Google, and various open-content discovery tools surface your work — and why a tidy entry in the catalog plus a license badge on your page is worth more than either alone.

The CommonContent catalog publishes structured metadata for each entry as part of its sitemap.