<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  SITEMAP.XML — Golden Paws Pet Grooming
  =======================================
  A sitemap is essentially a roadmap you hand directly
  to Google. It lists every URL on your site and tells
  Google when it was last updated. For a single-page
  site like this one, it's just one entry — but it
  still matters because it signals to Google that the
  site is actively maintained and ready to be indexed.

  After uploading this file to your GitHub repo,
  submit it in Google Search Console under:
  Sitemaps → Enter sitemap URL → Add/Submit
  The URL will be: goldenpawspetgrooming.com/sitemap.xml
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <!-- The canonical (official) URL of the homepage -->
    <loc>https://goldenpawspetgrooming.com/</loc>

    <!-- Update this date whenever you make changes to the site.
         Format is YYYY-MM-DD. Google uses this to decide how
         often to re-crawl the page. -->
    <lastmod>2026-04-06</lastmod>

    <!-- changefreq tells Google roughly how often this
         page is updated. "monthly" is appropriate for a
         small business homepage. Options are: always,
         hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never. -->
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>

    <!-- priority is a hint (0.0 to 1.0) about how important
         this page is relative to other pages on your site.
         Since this is your only page, 1.0 is correct. -->
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>
