<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  SHANTHA HI TECH — XML SITEMAP
  Hand-maintained. There is no build step, so nothing generates this.

  WHEN YOU ADD A PAGE, THREE THINGS MUST HAPPEN:
    1. add a <url> block here
    2. add a link to it on sitemap.html
    3. for a blog post, add a card to blog/index.html

  RULES THIS FILE FOLLOWS:
    * Every <loc> is absolute and uses the canonical origin exactly —
      https, no www, matching .htaccess and every <link rel="canonical">.
      A URL here that 301s elsewhere wastes crawl budget.
    * The homepage is listed as "/" only. /index.html is the same page and
      301s to "/", so listing both would be self-inflicted duplication.
    * In-page anchors (website.html#ecommerce, solutions.html#beauty, ...)
      are NOT listed. They are not URLs. 38 of them exist across the site;
      sitemap.html is where they get their crawlable links.
    * <priority> and <changefreq> are deliberately omitted. Google has
      confirmed it ignores both, and so does Bing. Templates still include
      them out of habit; they would be noise in a file edited by hand.
    * <lastmod> must stay honest. Update it when the page content actually
      changes — not on every upload. Google only trusts this field from
      sites where it has proven reliable, and dates that never change or
      always change are equally worthless.

  NOT LISTED, ON PURPOSE:
    /index.html                  duplicate of /
    /blog/_template.html         never deployed (.deployignore)
    /previews/lily-bakes/        client demo; noindex, and it carries the
                                 client's own canonical
    /logo-lab/                   internal scratch (.deployignore + 404 rule)
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

  <!-- Home -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Products -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/website.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/services.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/marketing.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/applications.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/solutions.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/ai.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-25</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Company -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/about.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/careers.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/enquire.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Blog -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/blog/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-27</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/blog/why-a-custom-website-beats-a-template.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-27</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/blog/your-website-is-your-first-employee.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Utility -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/sitemap.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Legal -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/terms.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/privacy.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://shanthahitech.com/refund.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
  </url>

</urlset>
