<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

  <!-- Core Pages (homepage, tools, course, llms.txt, dashboard, legal, trust pages, landing pages) — ~120 URLs -->
  <sitemap><loc>https://googleadsagent.ai/sitemap-core.xml</loc><lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod></sitemap>

  <!-- Blog: AI Playbook articles, tutorials, guides, community Q&A — ~78 URLs -->
  <sitemap><loc>https://googleadsagent.ai/blog/sitemap.xml</loc><lastmod>2026-04-12</lastmod></sitemap>

  <!-- Tier 1 Service Pages: Top ~212 US metros x top services — 22,720 URLs -->
  <sitemap><loc>https://googleadsagent.ai/sitemaps/sitemap-services-tier1.xml</loc><lastmod>2026-03-16</lastmod></sitemap>

  <!-- New Service Categories: food, fitness, finance, senior, events, tech — 8,138 URLs -->
  <sitemap><loc>https://googleadsagent.ai/sitemaps/sitemap-services-new.xml</loc><lastmod>2026-03-28</lastmod></sitemap>

  <!--
    REMOVED from sitemap index (April 2026 — SEO crawl budget optimization):
    - 44 bulk service shard sitemaps (sitemap-services-1.xml through sitemap-services-44.xml) — ~1.97M URLs
    - 9 ecommerce shard sitemaps (sitemap-ecommerce-1.xml through sitemap-ecommerce-9.xml) — ~329K URLs
    - sitemap-ecommerce-tier1.xml — 4,240 URLs
    - sitemap-companion-1.xml — 3,580 URLs
    - sitemap-video.xml
    - sitemap-creative-validator.xml
    - ARGUS dynamic sitemap

    Files remain on disk; they are simply no longer referenced from this index.
    This reduces submitted URLs from ~2.3M to ~31K, preserving crawl budget for high-value pages.
  -->

</sitemapindex>
