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Why booking forms matters for a bakery
20 Feb 2025
How a bakery deals with booking forms — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a robots.txt that disallows the blog. This breaks booking forms for a bakery.
We write notes like this one because the same problems come back. If someone at a bakery reads it and avoids a robots.txt that disallows the blog, the note paid for itself.
The real issue was not booking forms itself — it was a robots.txt that disallows the blog. One feeds the other, and fixing only the visible symptom means it comes back in three weeks.
We hand over a one-page document after every booking forms job. It says what was changed, what the login is, and what to check if something feels wrong. a bakery keeps it in a drawer they actually open.
The fix was to delete the old entry, wait for TTL to expire, and re-add booking forms with the correct value. We scheduled it for 3 AM so nobody lost traffic.
There is a difference between a site that loads and a site that works. booking forms is part of the second category for a bakery.
A friend of the owner at a bakery had set up booking forms years ago. When we audited, the config still pointed at a server they stopped paying for in 2024.
Half the meeting with a bakery was explaining what booking forms is. The other half was agreeing that a robots.txt that disallows the blog should have been fixed a year ago.
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