robots.txt for a driving school

After fixing robots.txt, we added a monitoring alert. If the record changes or the certificate approaches expiry, both we and a driving school get an email. No surprises.

Maintenance is not glamorous, but it is the reason a driving school has not had downtime since we took over robots.txt. The invoice is small and the peace of mind is large.

Crawlers and people want the same thing from robots.txt: one URL, a title that matches the heading, and a next link that goes somewhere real.

Big agencies solve robots.txt with a team. We solve it with a checklist and a dig command. The result is the same; the invoice is shorter.

We check robots.txt for a driving school once a quarter. It takes five minutes and has caught two problems in the past year. Both would have caused downtime within a week.

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