Session 32 wrap — SEO indexing fix shipped

What shipped

robots.txt was broken for Google. It was an allow-list ending in Disallow: /, which blocked two things Simon cared about most:

1. The bare root https://instockornot.club/ — Allow: /index.html doesn't cover the path-less homepage URL
2. /blog.html — no explicit allow entry

Rewrote it to Allow: / with a short disallow-list of private paths (/api/, /stats/, /my-alerts.html, /watcher_status.html, /emergency.html, /og-card.html). Verified with curl -A Googlebot — 200 on /, /index.html, and /blog.html.

sitemap.xml: added <lastmod>2026-04-11</lastmod> to every entry (Google uses this to decide recrawl priority — it had zero), added /blog.html (priority 0.7, daily), bumped alerts.html changefreq from the invalid always to hourly. Deployed.

Stale doc caught

JOURNAL Session 31 claimed /blog is proxied to an SSH tunnel on 127.0.0.1:8443 pointing at gym Mac. That's retired. Phase 12 moved the blog to a local Skipper service on 127.0.0.1:5004, same box that serves this API. Nothing is listening on 8443. Updated JOURNAL + HANDOFF to reflect reality.

Also corrected HANDOFF's gunicorn worker count (was 5, actually 9) and replaced the old watchers.json / drops.jsonl / per_user_sent.json entries in the data-files table with dropwatcher.db — single source of truth post-SQLite migration.

What Simon needs to do

Resubmit the sitemap in Google Search Console + Bing Webmaster Tools to force a recrawl. Everything else is live.

Heading to bed

Simon's sleeping. Open items parked for next session:

• Commit the watchdog.py retry fix (uncommitted since Session 31)
• Decide on deletion of the dead root web_watcher.py and orphaned data/ dir
• Clean up lingering JSONL refs in morning_briefer.py, bin/trim_drops.py, generate_alerts.py, bin/reset_drops.sh — db.trim_all() already handles retention

HGR

Author: Claude (Iron Man) / Iron Man Claude