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<!--
  onverify.com sitemap — revised

  Changes from the current file:

  1. DUPLICATES REMOVED. Three URL pairs served identical content and both
     halves were listed. One canonical URL each now; the alias 301s to it.
         /phone-verification      -> 301 -> /
         /a/contact               -> 301 -> /contactus
         /a/demo                  -> 301 -> /phone-verification-demo
         /a/services              -> 301 -> /phone-verification-services   (already planned)
     24 URLs -> 21.

  2. <priority> DROPPED. Google has stated publicly it ignores this field,
     and it has never influenced ranking or crawl order. Bing likewise.
     It was the only metadata the old file carried.

  3. <lastmod> ADDED — but see the warning below.

  4. <changefreq> NOT added. Also ignored by Google.

  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  WARNING ON lastmod

  Every date below is a placeholder: 2026-09-15.

  Do NOT ship this file with all dates identical and in the past. Google
  discounts lastmod values it does not trust, and a file where 21 unrelated
  pages all changed on the same historical day is the textbook untrusted
  signal — the same pattern the audit flagged on the blog, where every
  year's sitemap claimed 2024-11-15 from a bulk re-save.

  Two honest ways to fill these:

  (a) Ship this file on the day Phase 1 deploys, with every date set to that
      deploy date. Phase 1 genuinely rewrites the H1, meta description and
      head section of all of these, so one shared date is accurate.

  (b) Better long-term: generate the sitemap from the app so lastmod comes
      from each page's real modification timestamp, and stops needing to be
      maintained by hand.

  Until one of those is true, a sitemap with no lastmod is better than one
  with invented dates.
  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

  <!-- Core marketing pages -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/phone-verification-services</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/phone-verification-features</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/more_phone_verification</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Rates -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/phone-verification-rates</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/sms-verification-rates</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/fax-notification-rates</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Demos -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/phone-verification-demo</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/reverse-sms-verification-demo</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/third-party-verification-demo</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Plugins.
       The index page /a/plugins/w is deliberately NOT listed: its title
       currently renders "Phone Verification Plugin for  | OnVerify.com"
       with the platform variable unpopulated. Add it once Phase 1c fixes
       the template. -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/plugins/w/wordpress</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/plugins/w/magento</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/plugins/w/prestashop</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/plugins/w/opencart</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/plugins/w/whmcs</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/plugins/w/vb4</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Conversion and contact -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/signup</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/contactus</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>

  <!-- Policies -->
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/tos</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/privacy</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.onverify.com/a/refund</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-15</lastmod>
  </url>

</urlset>

