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A small miss. A big reminder about systems.
Recently, I accidentally left Webflow subdomain indexing enabled instead of disabled — which can cause duplicate pages being indexed by search engines.
This wasn’t a technical mistake.
It was a process failure.
For the last 2–3 years, I’ve relied on a Webflow development checklist by Kaleb Jae (Flowgurus):
👉 https://www.flowgurus.co/webflow-checklist
I’d used it so often I thought I knew it by heart.
That confidence made me skip one critical step.
Lesson learned:
Systems exist because we’re human — not because we’re inexperienced.
Going forward, I’m using the checklist every time — even when I think I don’t need it.
👉 Don’t rely on memory.
👉 Rely on systems.
They don’t make you perfect — they make you better.
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