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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/v0.70, 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. v0.69 shipped on the 16th and
     v0.70 the same day, and v0.70 changes a strict subset of pages that already carry that date —
     the app, the manual, the demo, the IT page and the landing page's JSON-LD. So for a crawler,
     the 16th IS when that content changed. What must not happen is these dates moving on a LATER
     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>
