<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-static.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-professionals?page=1</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-professionals?page=2</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-companies</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <!-- SEO-PRODSERV-SITEMAP: /products + /services (list + every public detail URL) were
       index,follow but absent from every sitemap — indexable yet undiscoverable by crawlers.
       Canonical tables company_products / company_services; thousands of active public rows. -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-products</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-services</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <!-- SEO-527 (Tony 2026-08-10): every APPROVED + PUBLISHED entity is submitted, including the
       work archive. Closed/completed contracts render ~6,000 words each and were reachable by
       link only.
       RETIRED: the /sitemap-customers row is gone with its route - A-ONE-ENTITY-TWO-INDEXABLE-URLS
       (2026-09-11). SEO-527 is UNCHANGED and still honoured: every one of those 2,356 businesses
       is still submitted, at /companies/(id) in sitemap-companies above. What is withdrawn is the
       SECOND address of the same business, not the business.
       MEASURED live the day of the removal, as distinct entity ids rather than loc tags:
         sitemap-companies  4,712 locs = 2,356 /companies/(id) + 2,356 /customers/(id)
         sitemap-customers  2,356 locs = 2,356 /customers/(id)
         sitemap.xml        2,774 locs = 2,356 /customers/(id) + 418 static
         distinct company ids 2,356 - distinct customer ids 2,356 - in BOTH 2,356 of 2,356
       So every business was submitted FOUR times at TWO self-canonical addresses.
       /customers/(id) now canonicalises to /companies/(id), and SEO doc 2.1 is explicit that a URL
       which canonicalises elsewhere does not belong in a sitemap. With that shape withdrawn this
       document had no population left, so it is retired the way /sitemap-posts and /sitemap-search
       were - route, index row and robots.txt line together. There was never a
       /sitemap-customers.xml rewrite in next.config.js, so no alias is left dangling.
       NOTE: THE PAGE IS NOT RETIRED. /customers/(id) still answers 200, still renders, and is
       still what the admin tools open. Only the submission goes.
       (Backticks and angle brackets are deliberately avoided in this block: it lives INSIDE a
        JavaScript template literal, so a backtick here terminates the string and breaks the
        build. Caught by esbuild before commit - RULE -0f.) -->
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-contracts-archive</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-business-groups</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-contracts</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-contractors-for</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>

  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-blog</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-schools</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-occupations</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://automateamerica.com/sitemap-images.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-11</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>