<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
  sitemap.xml — belcherlawnscapes.com

  Honest scope: the site is currently ONE page. Verified 2026-09-08 — every
  internal href in index.html is a same-page anchor (#top, #main, #freeze,
  #services, #coverage, #process, #questions, #book) or a tel: link. There is
  no second document to list, so this sitemap lists one URL and does not
  pretend otherwise. A sitemap padded with URLs that 200-but-are-really-the-
  homepage would be worse than no sitemap at all.

  When the service pages and city pages from the 30-day plan ship, add them
  here. Stub entries are left commented below in the intended shape.

  lastmod: update this whenever index.html changes in a way a crawler should
  care about. It is a real signal for a seasonal business — "booking fall
  blowouts now" is only credible if the document looks recently touched.
-->
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
                            http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">

  <url>
    <loc>https://www.belcherlawnscapes.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-09-08</lastmod>
    <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>

  <!-- Planned — uncomment each ONLY once the page actually exists and returns 200
       with its own title, canonical, and content. Listing a URL that resolves to
       the homepage is the soft-404 problem this audit flagged, reintroduced.

  <url><loc>https://www.belcherlawnscapes.com/sprinkler-blowouts</loc><changefreq>monthly</changefreq><priority>0.9</priority></url>
  <url><loc>https://www.belcherlawnscapes.com/irrigation-repair</loc><changefreq>monthly</changefreq><priority>0.8</priority></url>
  <url><loc>https://www.belcherlawnscapes.com/landscape-design</loc><changefreq>monthly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url>
  <url><loc>https://www.belcherlawnscapes.com/fertilization-turf-health</loc><changefreq>monthly</changefreq><priority>0.7</priority></url>
  <url><loc>https://www.belcherlawnscapes.com/sprinkler-blowout-cost</loc><changefreq>monthly</changefreq><priority>0.9</priority></url>
  -->

</urlset>
