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<!-- lastmod added 2026-08-25. Without it Google has nothing telling it whether
     a page is worth re-crawling, which on a two-page site is the whole recrawl
     signal. Move the date when the page CONTENT changes; a date that bumps on
     every deploy teaches the crawler to ignore it. -->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://octoberforge.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-25</lastmod>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <!-- /contact, not /contact.html — the host 308-redirects the .html form,
         and a sitemap that lists a redirect asks the crawler to discover the
         real address instead of being told it. Verified with a HEAD request
         2026-08-25: contact.html returns 308 to /contact. -->
    <loc>https://octoberforge.com/contact</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-25</lastmod>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>
