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<!--
  ===== sitemap.xml for chitthibhejo.com =====

  69 URLs, in three groups:

    1  the home page
    5  the policy pages
    1  what-to-write, the hub for the message guides
   62  one message guide per (occasion, recipient) pair

  Was six URLs — home plus the policies — which was the entire indexable surface
  while js/data.js already described seventeen occasions. The 63 additions are
  the search surface: pages for the queries people actually type ("rakhi wishes
  for brother", "birthday wishes for wife"), each with example messages written
  for that one relationship and advice on writing your own.

  WHY 62 AND NOT 300. Seventeen occasions times nineteen recipients is 323
  combinations and almost all of them are nothing: nobody searches for a
  new-baby message for their boss, and a page that exists only to hold a keyword
  is a page Google discounts the whole site for. The rule applied was two-part
  and both halves had to hold — the query has real volume in India, AND the
  letter for that relationship is genuinely different from every sibling page.
  Birthday earns eleven recipients because a note to a wife, a boss and a
  five-year-old share nothing but the word "happy"; love earns four, because a
  love note to a friend is not a thing. Rakhi is siblings only. newbaby got no
  pages at all: its queries are not relationship-shaped. The taxonomy in
  js/data.js (OCCASION_RECIPIENTS) is deliberately wider than this list, so a
  deep link works for pairs that have no page of their own.

  The list is still kept by hand. It is long enough that that is now a real
  cost, and it is still cheaper than a build step on a site whose whole premise
  is plain files. If you add a guide page, add it here in the same pass.

  DELIBERATELY ABSENT — create, preview, success, card and 404. Each one carries
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> and each one has a specific reason:
  create/preview/success render from sessionStorage or are steps in a flow, so a
  crawler arriving cold gets an empty or broken page; card.html is somebody's
  private letter; and a 404 body served at many URLs is a soft-404 farm. Listing
  a noindex page in a sitemap is a direct contradiction — you are asking Google
  to crawl a page while telling it not to index it — and Search Console reports
  it as an error. If you add a page, decide which of those two lists it belongs
  in before you write any markup.

  URL FORM: extension-less, no `.html`. This is not a style choice. Cloudflare
  Pages "will also redirect HTML pages to their extension-less counterparts"
  (Pages → Configuration → Serving Pages, "Route matching"), so `/terms.html`
  301/307s to `/terms`. Listing the `.html` form would make this a sitemap of
  redirects rather than of pages: every entry would cost a crawler an extra round
  trip, and the URL you submitted would never be the URL indexed. `/` is used for
  the home page for the same reason — `/index.html` redirects to `/`.

  The og:url inconsistency this comment used to record is FIXED: every page's
  canonical and og:url now name the extension-less form, matching this file, so
  all three declarations of a page's address agree. The 62 guide pages were
  generated with that rule built in. Nothing here is one redirect hop from the
  URL the HTML claims any more.

  The hrefs INSIDE the pages are a separate question and are deliberately still
  `.html` — that is the site's internal-link convention and the redirect costs a
  visitor one hop on a link they clicked, not a crawler one hop on every URL it
  was handed. index.html carries the full argument.

  SLUG SHAPE: `<occasion>-for-<recipient>`, so `/rakhi-wishes-for-brother`. It is
  the query with the words in the order they are typed, it reads as English in a
  shared link, and it stays flat — no `/guides/` directory, because a new
  top-level directory means editing build-dist.sh's copy list and its guard,
  while root-level `.html` files are already copied by pattern and deploy on
  their own. Two slugs are checked by the generator and would be rejected: none
  may begin with `create` or `preview`, which are globs in `_headers`.

  lastmod, and keep these honest — a lastmod that lies about a change is worse
  than no lastmod, because Google learns to discount the whole file:
    2026-08-20  the five policy pages, unchanged since the content review
    2026-08-22  the home page (gained the guide band), the hub, and the 62 guides
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    <!-- Home. The only page anyone should land on cold. -->
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        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
        <priority>1.0</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- The five policy pages. Razorpay's merchant activation requires all five
         to be live and reachable, which is a second reason to keep them
         indexable and listed rather than tucked away. -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/terms</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.3</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/privacy</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.3</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/refund</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.3</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/shipping</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.3</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/contact</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-20</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.3</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- ===== Message guides =====
         The hub first, then the 62 leaves grouped by occasion in the same order
         js/data.js declares them, which is the order the homepage shelves use.
         Grouped so that a human editing this file can see at a glance which
         recipients an occasion covers.

         priority 0.8 for the hub and 0.6 for the leaves, against 1.0 for home
         and 0.3 for the policies. Google has said for years that it ignores
         priority; the values are kept consistent anyway because the file is read
         by people more often than the crawler acts on it, and an ordering that
         disagrees with the site is a small lie in a file whose only job is to
         describe the site accurately. changefreq is yearly on the leaves for the
         same reason: these pages are hand-authored copy, not a feed. -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/what-to-write</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.8</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Love Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/love-messages-for-wife</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/love-messages-for-husband</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/love-messages-for-girlfriend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/love-messages-for-boyfriend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Sorry Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/sorry-messages-for-wife</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/sorry-messages-for-husband</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
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    <url>
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        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
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        <priority>0.6</priority>
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    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/sorry-messages-for-boyfriend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/sorry-messages-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Miss You Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/miss-you-messages-for-wife</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/miss-you-messages-for-husband</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/miss-you-messages-for-girlfriend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/miss-you-messages-for-boyfriend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/miss-you-messages-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Thank You Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/thank-you-messages-for-parents</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/thank-you-messages-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/thank-you-messages-for-colleague</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/thank-you-messages-for-boss</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/thank-you-messages-for-teacher</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Anniversary Wishes -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/anniversary-wishes-for-wife</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/anniversary-wishes-for-husband</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/anniversary-wishes-for-parents</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/anniversary-wishes-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Birthday Wishes -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-wife</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-husband</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-girlfriend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-boyfriend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-sister</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-brother</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-mother</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-father</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-daughter</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-son</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/birthday-wishes-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Congratulations Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/congratulations-messages-for-sister</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/congratulations-messages-for-brother</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/congratulations-messages-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/congratulations-messages-for-colleague</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Good Luck Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/good-luck-messages-for-sister</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/good-luck-messages-for-brother</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/good-luck-messages-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Get Well Soon Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/get-well-soon-messages-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/get-well-soon-messages-for-colleague</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Farewell Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/farewell-messages-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/farewell-messages-for-colleague</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/farewell-messages-for-boss</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/farewell-messages-for-teacher</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Rakhi Wishes -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/rakhi-wishes-for-sister</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/rakhi-wishes-for-brother</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/rakhi-wishes-for-cousin</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Diwali Wishes -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/diwali-wishes-for-sister</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/diwali-wishes-for-brother</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/diwali-wishes-for-family</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
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        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/diwali-wishes-for-colleague</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Eid Mubarak Wishes -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/eid-mubarak-wishes-for-family</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/eid-mubarak-wishes-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Christmas Wishes -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/christmas-wishes-for-family</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/christmas-wishes-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- New Year Wishes -->
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        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/new-year-wishes-for-family</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>
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        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/new-year-wishes-for-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
    </url>

    <!-- Friendship Day Messages -->
    <url>
        <loc>https://chitthibhejo.com/friendship-day-messages-for-best-friend</loc>
        <lastmod>2026-08-22</lastmod>
        <changefreq>yearly</changefreq>
        <priority>0.6</priority>
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