Where do opening hours need to be updated everywhere?

On the homepage, contact page and footer, plus map and directory listings, the email signature and the answering machine. A short list of these spots saves time every time.

How do I keep holiday notices current?

Note the removal date the moment you post the notice. Time-limited notices without a removal date almost always stay up.

Is it enough to maintain hours only on the contact page?

Only if they don't appear anywhere else. Once they show up in two places, they'll eventually contradict each other.

How often should I double-check opening hours even without a change?

Monthly is a reasonable baseline, plus a check right before any public holiday block, since that's when exceptions are most likely to be wrong.

What's the safest way to phrase a holiday closure?

Name the exact days and the date normal hours resume. That gives you and visitors a way to check whether the notice is still valid.

Should opening hours be built into structured data on the page?

It helps search results show correct hours, but it doesn't replace the visible text — both need updating together, or they'll disagree with each other.

What if hours change seasonally, such as summer and winter?

Keep both versions ready in advance and swap on a fixed date rather than editing from scratch each season — that way nothing gets forgotten mid-transition.

Keeping opening hours, holidays and vacations current

Opening hours should be maintained in a single place and pulled into every spot they appear: homepage, contact page, footer and directory listings. Holiday and vacation notices are especially error-prone because they're meant to be temporary but rarely get removed again.

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The mistake with the most expensive consequence

An old copyright year is embarrassing. Wrong opening hours mean someone drives over for nothing — and tells others about it.

That's why hours belong in every review round, even when nothing has changed for months. Precisely because they rarely change, nobody thinks to check them.

One source, many places

Hours rarely live in just one spot. Four to six locations is typical: homepage, contact page, footer, directory listing, map service, and the email signature.

Maintain them in one place inside your own system and pull them in everywhere that's technically possible. For everything else, keep a short list of where hours appear — otherwise next time you'll only fix the one page you happened to remember.

Homepage and contact page
Footer on every page
Map and directory listings
Email signature and answering machine

Holidays and vacation: a notice with a built-in expiry

"Closed between Christmas and New Year" isn't a notice anymore in February — it's evidence that nobody's looking. The same goes for staff vacations, bridge days and special hours.

The simplest fix: the moment you post a time-limited notice, put the removal date in your calendar right then. Not later — at that exact moment.

Just before the change, just after

Two moments matter most: right before something changes, so the notice is up in time, and roughly two weeks after, so the old version is truly gone everywhere.

That second date is the one everyone forgets. That's exactly where the dust settles.

Writing exceptions so people don't have to call

"Limited hours over the holidays" doesn't answer anyone's question. Specific is better: which days are closed, which are shortened, and from when things return to normal. Spelling it out saves phone calls — and makes the notice checkable, because there's a date in it.

A date in the text has a second benefit: it becomes obviously outdated on the next review, the moment it has passed. Vague wording ages invisibly.

How DustOff keeps hours honest

DustOff reads the pages where hours and holiday notices tend to live and flags anything that reads as a past deadline: a holiday closure with a date behind it, a "back to normal from" line that already passed.

You get an email with the excerpt, not a dashboard to check yourself — which matters most for a detail people only think about once a season.

Reads homepage, contact page and footer together
Flags holiday and vacation notices past their date
Sends a reminder on your rhythm, not just once

Häufige Fragen

Where do opening hours need to be updated everywhere?: On the homepage, contact page and footer, plus map and directory listings, the email signature and the answering machine. A short list of these spots saves time every time.
How do I keep holiday notices current?: Note the removal date the moment you post the notice. Time-limited notices without a removal date almost always stay up.
Is it enough to maintain hours only on the contact page?: Only if they don't appear anywhere else. Once they show up in two places, they'll eventually contradict each other.
How often should I double-check opening hours even without a change?: Monthly is a reasonable baseline, plus a check right before any public holiday block, since that's when exceptions are most likely to be wrong.
What's the safest way to phrase a holiday closure?: Name the exact days and the date normal hours resume. That gives you and visitors a way to check whether the notice is still valid.
Should opening hours be built into structured data on the page?: It helps search results show correct hours, but it doesn't replace the visible text — both need updating together, or they'll disagree with each other.
What if hours change seasonally, such as summer and winter?: Keep both versions ready in advance and swap on a fixed date rather than editing from scratch each season — that way nothing gets forgotten mid-transition.