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<!-- v0.67: priority and changefreq are gone. Google has ignored both since 2023, and they were the
     only signals this file carried; lastmod is the one it does read. Update a lastmod ONLY when
     that URL's content actually changes — a file where every date moves on every deploy is a file
     Google learns to ignore, which is worse than having no dates at all.

     v0.69, and worth writing down because an auditor raised it and will raise it again: every entry
     below says 2026-08-16 and that is correct, not lazy. The whole v0.68 build — the app, the manual,
     the demo — was made on the 16th and has not shipped yet, so for a crawler seeing this file for
     the first time, the 16th IS when that content changed. What must not happen is these dates
     moving on the NEXT deploy for pages that did not change.

     One deliberate mismatch: /privacy-policy.html says "Last updated: 15 August 2026" on its face
     while carrying a lastmod of the 16th. Those measure different things — the 15th is the date the
     POLICY took effect, the 16th is the date the page text last changed (v0.69 added a link to
     /it-security). Both are right. Do not "fix" either to match the other. -->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/app</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/how-to-write-an-sop</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/food-manufacturing-sop-software</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/sop-templates</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/sop-vs-work-instruction</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/it-security</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
  <!-- example.html is deliberately ABSENT and deliberately noindex. It is a real generated export:
       an unissued DRAFT chemical-safety procedure with first-aid and exposure wording. Right as a
       demo a prospect opens from this site, wrong as a search result — someone searching for
       chemical safety guidance must not land on it and read it as authority. Decided 2026-07-30
       (Codex SEO HIGH-2); re-proposed for indexing 2026-08-16 (Edward H3) and declined on the same
       safety ground. The /sop-templates page carries that search intent instead. -->
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/manual.html</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
  <url><loc>https://sopmaker.uk/privacy-policy.html</loc><lastmod>2026-08-16</lastmod></url>
</urlset>
