<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  Two public pages worth indexing: the homepage and the FAQ.

  `/` is the whole strategy. It used to be a login screen: PrivateRoute sent a
  logged-out visitor to /login, and LoginRoute sent mobile browsers on to
  /apps, so a mobile-first crawler asking for the root of the domain got a
  redirect chain ending on an app-store page. It now serves real marketing
  copy as static markup inside #root, which React replaces on mount — see the
  gate script in index.html. A crawler, and anyone with JavaScript off, gets
  the full page without running anything.

  There was briefly a second static page at /bridge-bidding-practice/ carrying
  the same copy. Two near-identical pages on one host split the authority they
  were meant to build, and `/` is the stronger of the two, so it was folded in
  before either shipped.

  Note this is a shorter list than "everything that says index, follow".
  `bootstrap.jsx` sets `robots: index, follow` app-wide and only the guide
  article overrides it, so several public routes (`/apps`, `/privacy`,
  `/terms`, `/dealTypes`, `/releaseNotes`, `/gift`) inherit it without being
  listed here. That is deliberate — they are thin or duplicated elsewhere —
  but it means the sitemap is a chosen subset, not a derived one. The guide
  directory was removed for the same reason: it listed the same nine guides as
  news.cuebids.com/start, so it is noindex with a canonical there.

  Apex host, not www: https://www.cuebids.com 301s to https://cuebids.com in
  production, and a canonical or a sitemap entry naming a redirecting host is
  a wasted hop at best. Settled 2026-08-26: links.ts APP_URL and every
  hard-coded link on the news site now name the apex, so nothing points at the
  redirecting host.

  Hand-maintained, because the SPA has no build step that could generate it.
  When a guide is ported into `packages/cuebids-guides` its app page becomes
  noindex with a canonical pointing at news.cuebids.com — remove it from here
  at the same time, and let the news sitemap carry it instead.
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://cuebids.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-08-26</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://cuebids.com/help</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-07-02</lastmod>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.7</priority>
  </url>
</urlset>
