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Why XML sitemaps matters for a print shop
23 Mar 2024
How a print shop deals with XML sitemaps — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: HTTP bookmarks after a forced HTTPS move. This breaks XML sitemaps for a print shop.
You do not need a status page if you have never gone down. a print shop is on month fourteen of zero downtime, and the secret is boring: correct XML sitemaps and a host that does not oversell.
Complexity is the enemy of uptime. a print shop had three layers of proxy in front of a site that gets two hundred visits a day. We replaced it with a static page and correct XML sitemaps.
Every technical decision for a print shop comes back to one question: does this help the person looking at the site right now? If XML sitemaps is invisible to that person, it is working.
We document XML sitemaps in a shared spreadsheet. It is not glamorous, but a print shop can open it on their phone at midnight if something breaks.
We hand over a one-page document after every XML sitemaps job. It says what was changed, what the login is, and what to check if something feels wrong. a print shop keeps it in a drawer they actually open.
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