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<!--
  Only pages that should rank appear here.

  /privacy/, /terms/, /security/, /sms-terms/, /support/ and /subprocessors/ are
  deliberately absent because they carry noindex. Listing a noindexed URL in a
  sitemap is a contradictory signal and Search Console reports it as one.
  /404.html and /styleguide.html are absent for the same reason.

  That leaves one URL today, which is the honest state of the site: the home
  page is the only page meant to be found in search. Add entries here as real
  marketing pages ship, and keep the rule that a noindexed URL never appears.

  ONE URL IS THE FINISHED STATE, NOT AN UNFINISHED ONE, and the difference is
  invisible from the file. Audited September 28, 2026: a sitemap declaring one
  of eight public pages was raised as a defect, on the reasonable reading that
  seven pages had simply never been added. They had. Tim ruled the same day
  that no legal page is indexable, so all six document pages plus the style
  guide and /404 are noindexed on purpose and none of them belongs here. The
  file was already correct and the count was already right for the right
  reason.

  A SITEMAP IS AN INVITATION, NOT A CONTROL. Leaving a URL out of this file
  does nothing to a crawler that reaches it another way, and every one of these
  pages is linked from the home page footer, which is the most crawlable place
  on the site. The control is X-Robots-Tag in site/_headers plus the meta
  robots tag in each page. If you are ever tempted to keep a page out of search
  by omitting it here, that is the mistake this paragraph exists to stop.
-->
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  <url>
    <loc>https://expandingranks.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-26</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>
