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Setting up lastmod dates for an accountant
13 Mar 2026
How an accountant deals with lastmod dates — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a PDF that sales cannot find. This breaks lastmod dates for an accountant.
There is a difference between a site that loads and a site that works. lastmod dates is part of the second category for an accountant.
A form that collects data for an accountant should say where the message goes. Nine fields and a captcha on a quiet Tuesday will cost you the person who actually wanted to pay.
We hand over a one-page document after every lastmod dates job. It says what was changed, what the login is, and what to check if something feels wrong. an accountant keeps it in a drawer they actually open.
We write notes like this one because the same problems come back. If someone at an accountant reads it and avoids a PDF that sales cannot find, the note paid for itself.
DNS propagation is not instant, but it is not magic either. We explained to an accountant that the TTL on the old lastmod dates record was 86 400 seconds — twenty-four hours.
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