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<!--
  Public Dempsi pages. Declared in robots.txt and submitted to Search Console.

  The point is not ranking. Search engines and the assistants directors now ask
  ("what's the best People's Choice voting platform") summarize a product from the
  pages they can find. Dempsi's homepage says it has CyberTracker text alerts and
  fundraising analytics; until this file existed, every page explaining HOW any of
  that works was reachable only from a link buried in the director dashboard, so a
  crawler's whole picture of the product was one marketing page.

  Contestant-facing surfaces are deliberately absent — voting pages, award pages,
  certificates, dashboards. Nothing here exposes a contestant or a voter.

  Static on purpose: this page set changes a few times a year. Add new guides and
  blog posts here by hand.
-->
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  <!-- Core -->
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/</loc><priority>1.0</priority><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>

  <!-- Director guides: what the product does and how to run a contest well -->
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/setupGuide.html</loc><priority>0.8</priority><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/bestPractices.html</loc><priority>0.8</priority><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/dayOfGuide.html</loc><priority>0.7</priority><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/referral.html</loc><priority>0.6</priority><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>

  <!-- Blog: the top of the funnel -->
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/blog/</loc><priority>0.8</priority><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/blog/how-to-run-peoples-choice-pageant.html</loc><priority>0.7</priority><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/blog/peoples-choice-voting-software.html</loc><priority>0.7</priority><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/blog/pageant-fundraising-ideas.html</loc><priority>0.7</priority><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/blog/county-fair-pageant-revenue.html</loc><priority>0.7</priority><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>

  <!-- Legal -->
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/terms-of-service.html</loc><priority>0.3</priority><changefreq>yearly</changefreq></url>
  <url><loc>https://dempsi.com/terms-of-service-voting.html</loc><priority>0.3</priority><changefreq>yearly</changefreq></url>

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