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ARCHITECTURE NOTES:
- Contains all published, indexable blog posts
- Legacy mapping reference (for rewrite rules):
    /blog/whatsapp-chatbot-guide/     ←  blog-details.php?id=7
    /blog/[slug]/                     ←  blog-details.php?id=[N]
- Ref: SOP #173 — Orit Mutznik: Dynamic sitemap quality filtering
  → Only include posts with >300 words of unique content
  → Exclude any post with placeholder/Lorem ipsum text
- Ref: SOP #83 — John Shehata: LiveBlogPosting for time-sensitive content
- image:image namespace for Google Images / Visual AI Overviews

DYNAMIC GENERATION DIRECTIVE:
- This sitemap should ideally be generated dynamically from the CMS
  database on each Googlebot request (Ref: SOP #458 — Vercel/Route Handler)
- Cache at edge for 3600 seconds (1 hour), revalidate on new publish
- NEVER rely on a static XML file that goes stale

QUALITY GATE BEFORE ADDING A URL:
  [✓] Post is >300 words of original, unique content
  [✓] Post has unique <title> and <meta description>
  [✓] Post has Article or BlogPosting JSON-LD schema
  [✓] Post has self-referencing canonical tag
  [✓] Post author has Person schema with sameAs links (Ref: SOP #6)
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    <lastmod>2024-11-30</lastmod>
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      <image:title>WhatsApp Chatbot — AI-Powered Virtual Assistant for Business</image:title>
      <image:caption>How WhatsApp chatbots leverage AI to automate customer engagement and drive business growth</image:caption>
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