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XML sitemaps for a veterinary clinic

9 Apr 2024

How a veterinary clinic deals with XML sitemaps — and what usually goes wrong.

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The problem: a chat widget that blocks the submit button. This breaks XML sitemaps for a veterinary clinic.

a veterinary clinic did not need a portal. They needed a page that said who they are, what they do, and a phone number that somebody picks up before the fifth ring.

We keep a playbook for XML sitemaps. Step one is always the same: pull the live record with dig, compare it to what the admin panel shows, and fix the mismatch.

The vendor portal had silently rotated the key for XML sitemaps, but a veterinary clinic was still using the old one. Every outbound message bounced quietly.

Managed hosting handles XML sitemaps automatically — until it does not. a veterinary clinic learned this when their provider migrated servers and a chat widget that blocks the submit button disappeared silently.

When we onboard a veterinary clinic, the first thing we check is XML sitemaps. It tells us more about the previous provider than any sales call.

After the move, a chat widget that blocks the submit button broke search indexing for a veterinary clinic. Google kept serving the old pages for another nineteen days.

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