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canonical URLs for a roofing crew
24 Jul 2024
How a roofing crew deals with canonical URLs — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a www record that disagrees with the apex. This breaks canonical URLs for a roofing crew.
The vendor promised a roofing crew that canonical URLs was handled. We verified: it was not. Trust but verify has saved more uptime than any product we have used.
When we reviewed canonical URLs, the DNS panel showed a www record that disagrees with the apex. Two records contradicted each other, and the resolver picked one at random.
Our own site had a www record that disagrees with the apex for three days before a colleague noticed. We added it to the pre-launch checklist the same afternoon.
Related work on this site follows the same principle: one job, a real inbox, no theatre. a roofing crew did not need four analytics dashboards to know that Tuesdays are slow.
Six months later, a roofing crew asked us to look at something unrelated. While we were in the panel, we noticed a www record that disagrees with the apex had crept back. We fixed it before it caused trouble.
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