<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  sitemap.xml — arviahr.com (LANDING SITE, Netlify)

  Lives at the root of ~/Desktop/arvia-site/ so it resolves at
  https://arviahr.com/sitemap.xml

  WHAT THIS IS FOR
  A sitemap is a list of the pages you want Google to know about. It
  doesn't make pages rank; it makes sure none get missed. Right now the
  site is small enough that Google would probably find everything
  anyway — the real value starts when you add more pages.

  RULE: only list URLs that actually load. Listing a page that doesn't
  exist fills Search Console with errors and makes Google recrawl the
  site less often.

  URL FORM: these use /pricing, not /pricing.html, because that's the
  form your own navigation links to. Netlify serves the .html file at
  the clean URL automatically. Keep the two consistent — mixing them
  splits Google's view of the same page in two.

  LASTMOD: update the date when a page's content actually changes.
  Don't set them all to today on every deploy — Google learns to
  ignore dates that are always current.
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

  <!-- Homepage -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://arviahr.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-10-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Pricing — a real page as of the Oct 2026 redesign, and a page
       people search for by name ("arvia pricing"). Worth its own entry. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://arviahr.com/pricing</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-10-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Difficult conversations — the landing page for the "Tough employee
       talk coming up?" ad (Oct 2026), and a topic people search for. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://arviahr.com/difficult-conversations</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-10-28</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Free planner: employee keeps showing up late (Nov 2026). A small
       no-sign-up tool aimed at a common search. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://arviahr.com/employee-late</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-11-13</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Legal pages. Low priority — they should be indexed (it's a trust
       signal that they exist and are public) but they'll never rank for
       anything you care about. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://arviahr.com/privacy</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-10-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.3</priority>
  </url>

  <url>
    <loc>https://arviahr.com/terms</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-10-21</lastmod>
    <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.3</priority>
  </url>

</urlset>
