From ec87ef529b139c322deea812a05226a46f7a4e23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Foster <peter.foster@ukdataservices.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:15:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] SEO: remove 3 redirected URLs from sitemap, update
 web-scraping lastmod
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Remove /data-scraping-services/index, /services/web-scraping-companies, and /services/data-scraping from sitemap.xml — all now 301 redirect to /services/web-scraping. Sitemap should only list canonical URLs. Update lastmod on /services/web-scraping to 2026-03-20 to signal the title/description fix to Google.
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 sitemap.xml | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sitemap.xml b/sitemap.xml
index 4c389ca..0ea08b0 100644
--- a/sitemap.xml
+++ b/sitemap.xml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/data-analytics-consultancy-london</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/data-analytics-services-london</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/data-analytics-services</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
-  <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/data-scraping-services/index</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/data-services-london</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/faq</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/gdpr-compliance</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
@@ -35,9 +34,7 @@
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/financial-data-services</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/price-monitoring</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/property-data-extraction</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
-  <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/web-scraping-companies</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>
-  <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/data-scraping</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>monthly</changefreq></url>
-  <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/web-scraping</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
+  <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/services/web-scraping</loc><lastmod>2026-03-20</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/terms-of-service</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/tools/cost-calculator</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>
   <url><loc>https://ukdataservices.co.uk/tools/data-converter</loc><lastmod>2026-03-08</lastmod><changefreq>weekly</changefreq></url>