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<!-- Sitemap v47 (July 30, 2026): THREE lastmod bumps, all to 2026-07-30, closing out the pod-review half of the email-block migration (Master_To_Do item 62). All three ran prebuild.py before and page_audit_v4_5.py after. BUMPED: (1) bartesian-calamansi-daiquiri-pod-review.html 2026-05-30 to 2026-07-30 (v1.8; prebuild opened at NINE issues; 55 em dashes cleared, the largest no-dash backlog on record, beating Old Fashioned's 30; dateModified and article:modified_time were nine days apart; block moved 94% to 76%; finished at prebuild 0 and page_audit 0). (2) bartesian-raspberry-ginger-gimlet-pod-review.html 2026-05-26 to 2026-07-30 (v2.8; 45 dashes including two inside the FAQ schema, where the SCHEMA was the drifted half and the visible text matched it, the reverse of Calamansi; block moved to 75%; page_audit 10 issues to 5). (3) bartesian-aviation-pod-review.html 2026-05-26 to 2026-07-30 (v2.8; 44 dashes; page_audit 11 issues to 5; block at 87%, HIGH BY DESIGN and accepted by Lenny, because Aviation has almost nothing after the verdict and interrupting the run-up to a 9/10 costs more than the percentage buys). No URL added or removed; still 32 URLs. PENDING-LASTMOD SWEEP RUN AND CLEAR: no page edited since v46 is left unbumped. * THREE FINDINGS WORTH CARRYING. (a) NONE of the three was a Kit page, making SEVEN consecutive non-Kit pages. The MailerLite_Email_Block_LOCKED v5 expectation that 2 to 3 of the remaining 8 would be dead-capture Kit pages is now dead; only about.html remains and the prediction should be retired, not carried. (b) THE RETIRED BLOCK ON GIMLET AND AVIATION CARRIED NO WRAPPER CLASS AT ALL. It was fully inline styled, so both prebuild and page_audit reported no retired wrapper while the block sat plainly on the page. Both would have passed green. That is the Rule 41 error class again and it proves the wrapper list can never be complete; the durable check is the heading text or the ABSENCE of .email-capture, not the wrapper name. (c) AVIATION HAD BROKEN MARKUP LIVE SINCE MAY. A nested comment inside the v2.3 version comment closed it early, spilling a stray script, a stray closing body tag about 4KB in, and a sentence of version notes that was RENDERING AS VISIBLE TEXT AT THE TOP OF THE LIVE PAGE, confirmed by screenshot. Repaired. The stray script was the page's ONLY video click handler, so it was relocated rather than deleted. * ALSO ON ALL THREE: numeric score stripped from og:title and twitter:title per Article_Spec 2.3.1, three for three, matching Old Fashioned and Manhattan. Visible Updated byline in the Month Year format. Both modified dates set to 2026-07-30. On Gimlet and Aviation, the two legacy Lato pages: three palette names (navy, navy light, white) added to :root because the locked block references all three and neither page defined them, which would have rendered the box with no background; the mandatory Affiliate Disclosure footer link added, absent on both and present on the other pod reviews; and the old numeric Facebook profile URL swapped to the vanity address. * LOGGED, NOT FIXED: all four video facades across Gimlet and Aviation use YouTube CDN hqdefault posters instead of local branded files, so both vertical players show a landscape image (item 79). Calamansi's reel poster still needs a by-eye check. Gimlet and Aviation both still carry single-width srcset images and two missing palette names. * ONE PAGE REMAINS ON ITEM 62: about.html, paired with the prebuild.py v1.1 fix. RESUBMIT IN GSC AFTER UPLOAD. The sitemap is the unrationed channel; individual Request Indexing is capped at roughly 10 to 12 per property per day. -->
<!-- Sitemap v46 (July 30, 2026): THREE lastmod bumps, all to 2026-07-30, all from the email-block migration chat (Master_To_Do item 62). Each page had the retired newsletter block replaced with the locked free-sheet block per MailerLite_Email_Block_LOCKED v5 Sections 2 and 3, placed after the Final Verdict and before the final beauty shot, plus the GA4 email_signup snippet and a visible Updated byline in the settled Month Year format. Every one ran prebuild.py before and page_audit_v4_5.py after, and every one finished at page_audit = 0 issues. BUMPED: (1) bartesian-bees-knees-pod-review.html 2026-06-10 to 2026-07-30 (v1.4; prebuild opened at 5 issues; block moved 94% to 75%). (2) bartesian-old-fashioned-pod-review.html 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-30 (v1.5; prebuild opened at TEN issues, the dirtiest of the three: it had never received the global no-dash pass, so 30 dashes were cleared across title, og:title, twitter:title, meta description, schema text, body copy, four tasting-note headings, two FAQ answers, related cards, both footer taglines and the about-this-article line; og:title and twitter:title also lost the numeric score per Article_Spec 2.3.1; meta description trimmed from 173 to 150; dateModified and article:modified_time were a day out of sync and are now both 2026-07-30; block moved 93% to 73%). (3) bartesian-manhattan-pod-review.html 2026-06-13 to 2026-07-30 (v1.6; prebuild opened at 8 issues, same no-dash backlog at 17 dashes, meta description trimmed from 163 to 149, block moved 94% to 74%; finished at prebuild = 0 issues). No URL added or removed; still 32 URLs. PENDING-LASTMOD SWEEP RUN AND CLEAR: no page edited since v45 is left unbumped. * NONE OF THE THREE WAS A KIT PAGE. All three already had the MailerLite Universal script in the head and the correct form fGMIsB, so their boxes had been capturing; only the wrapper and the offer copy were retired. That is now four consecutive non-Kit pages counting Uptown Rocks, so the v5 expectation that 2 to 3 of the remaining 8 would be dead-capture Kit pages has NOT materialised. Four pages remain on item 62: calamansi-daiquiri (file still to be pulled from Bluehost), raspberry-ginger-gimlet, aviation, and about.html last. * TWO ITEMS LOGGED, NOT FIXED: prebuild.py reports a false FAIL on video posters whenever a poster filename does not end -reel.jpg or -thumbnail.jpg or is served from the YouTube CDN, which fired on bees-knees and old-fashioned (scope with items 79 and 80 into a prebuild v1.1 pass). And manhattan-reel.jpg is confirmed by eye to be a legacy still rather than the branded navy and gold cover, despite the page comment claiming otherwise, making it the third known legacy reel poster after uptown-rocks and better-cocktails (item 79). RESUBMIT IN GSC AFTER UPLOAD. The sitemap is the unrationed channel; individual Request Indexing is capped at roughly 10 to 12 per property per day. -->
<!-- Sitemap v45 (July 30, 2026): FOUR lastmod bumps, all to 2026-07-30. No URL added or removed; still 32 URLs. BUMPED: (1) / homepage 2026-07-29 to 2026-07-30 (index.html v1.11: head metadata search-targeting pass for Master_To_Do 5y. Title rewritten to lead with the target phrase "Bartesian Menu Maker" instead of the brand name, meta description rewritten and front-loaded, og:title and og:description synced, JSON-LD WebSite description reworded, twitter:card summary_large_image added. Zero visible on-page change; page_audit_v4_5.py = 0 issues). (2) bartesian-uptown-rocks-pod-review.html 2026-06-10 to 2026-07-30 (v1.3, shipped and uploaded Jul 30: locked free-sheet email block swapped in and moved 94% to 75%, email_signup snippet, two ingredients paragraphs, eighth FAQ with matching schema, visible Updated byline, both modified dates bumped, plus a pre-existing article:modified_time eight weeks out of sync with dateModified). (3) bartesian-whiskey-sour-pod-review.html 2026-07-29 to 2026-07-30 (v1.6.1, visible Updated byline added to spec format). (4) bartesian-lemon-drop-pod-review.html 2026-07-29 to 2026-07-30 (v1.3.1, same single-purpose byline fix). PENDING-LASTMOD SWEEP RUN AND CLEAR: no page edited since v44 is left unbumped. ROOT-CAUSE NOTE: the three pod-review edits all shipped Jul 30 in a separate chat that never ran a sitemap pass, so uptown-rocks had been sitting at a JUNE 10 lastmod after a same-day rebuild. That is precisely the batching miss Rule 25(b) exists to catch, and it was caught only because opening this file for the homepage triggered the full sweep. RESUBMIT IN GSC AFTER UPLOAD. Note: GSC individual Request Indexing hit QUOTA EXCEEDED on Jul 30 (Master_To_Do 75); the sitemap is NOT rationed, so it is the reliable channel for all four of these. -->
<!-- Sitemap v44 (July 29, 2026, late evening): ELEVEN lastmod bumps, all from the email-block migration build chat (Master_To_Do items 61 and 62). Every one of these pages had the retired newsletter block replaced with the locked free-sheet lead-magnet block per MailerLite_Email_Block_LOCKED v4 Sections 2 and 3, plus the GA4 email_signup snippet, and every one finished at page_audit_v4_4.py = 0 issues. BUMPED: (1) / homepage 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-29 (index.html v1.8; its retired block used the .newsletter wrapper, not .stay-loop, so the audit caught it only via the heading string). (2) traveling-with-a-bartesian.html 2026-07-07 to 2026-07-29 (v1.1, the site's #1 traffic page). (3) bartesian-pod-calories.html 2026-06-05 to 2026-07-29 (v1.4, highest-intent match on the site; 3 dashes removed). (4) bartesian-whiskey-sour-pod-review.html 2026-06-11 to 2026-07-29 (v1.6; also fixed a pre-existing date mismatch where the schema read Jun 22 and the meta still read Jun 11). (5) bartesian-lemon-drop-pod-review.html 2026-06-10 to 2026-07-29 (v1.3). (6) best-bartesian-pods.html 2026-05-26 to 2026-07-29 (v2.4, opened at FOURTEEN audit issues: still running the retired Kit embed 0ce1339722 as its only email form, no MailerLite script at all, no robots or author meta, no FAQ schema despite a visible six-question FAQ, legacy numeric Facebook URLs, and a single-width hero. ALSO: the live file on the server was TRUNCATED, missing the tail of a script plus its closing body and html tags; repaired. ALSO: hero rebuilt to 4 widths in WebP and JPG and MOVED out of the images/ flat root into images/best-bartesian-pods/). (7) do-bartesian-pods-expire.html 2026-06-17 to 2026-07-29 (v1.2; BOTH live YouTube iframes converted to click-to-load facades per Web_Page_Spec v1.6, with two new posters generated by thumbnail_informational_v1_2.py). (8) how-to-make-better-bartesian-cocktails.html 2026-06-25 to 2026-07-29 (v2.5, opened at THIRTEEN issues: also a Kit page; capsize CLS fallback @font-face blocks were missing entirely AND the font cascade did not reference them, so both were fixed; hero gained 3 widths). (9) bartesian-vs-scratch-cocktails.html 2026-05-26 to 2026-07-29 (v2.4, opened at TWELVE issues, also a Kit page). (10) how-to-host-bartesian-cocktail-party.html 2026-05-25 to 2026-07-29 (v2.4, opened at FOURTEEN issues, also a Kit page; hero rebuilt to 4 widths and MOVED out of the flat root into images/how-to-host-bartesian-cocktail-party/). (11) can-you-make-your-own-bartesian-pods.html 2026-07-07 to 2026-07-29 (v1.1; both content images rebuilt from single-width JPEGs with no WebP to 4 widths in both formats, which was the exact defect this page shipped with on Jul 7). No URL added or removed; still 32 URLs. PENDING-LASTMOD SWEEP RUN AND CLEAR: no page edited since v43 is left unbumped. ★ FOUR OF THESE PAGES WERE NEVER MIGRATED OFF KIT (best-bartesian-pods, how-to-make-better-bartesian-cocktails, bartesian-vs-scratch-cocktails, how-to-host-bartesian-cocktail-party). On each, the Kit embed was the ONLY email form on the page, so those four boxes had captured nothing into MailerLite since Kit was retired in June. The Jul 29 audit had assumed all 19 retired-block pages were wrong-block-with-working-form; for these four that was wrong. ★ EMAIL OFFER COVERAGE: 8 of 27 eligible pages to 19 of 27. Eight remain: about.html and seven pod reviews (uptown-rocks, bees-knees, old-fashioned, manhattan, calamansi-daiquiri, raspberry-ginger-gimlet, aviation). ⚠ RESUBMIT IN GSC AFTER UPLOAD. ⚠ Individual Request Indexing was spent to the daily cap tonight (roughly 10 to 12 per property per day); can-you-make-your-own-bartesian-pods.html is the one page from tonight that went live WITHOUT an indexing request and should get the first one tomorrow. ⚠ PageSpeed is owed on the five pages whose images changed: how-to-make-better-bartesian-cocktails (prior mobile 36), how-to-host-bartesian-cocktail-party (63), best-bartesian-pods (73), can-you-make-your-own-bartesian-pods, and do-bartesian-pods-expire (no baseline on record, so tonight's run becomes the baseline). -->
<!-- Sitemap v43 (July 29, 2026): SUPERSEDES v42 (v42 was built earlier the same session and never uploaded, so this is the single save that covers the whole day per the Rule 25 same-save sweep). THREE pages bumped: (1) which-bartesian-to-buy.html 2026-07-15 -> 2026-07-29, covering TWO page edits, because v3.4 (Jul 24, SEO phrase pass) never got a lastmod at all and v3.5 (Jul 29) added the Duet second-machine paragraph + email_signup snippet + de-dash. (2) best-flavored-spirits-for-bartesian.html 2026-07-15 -> 2026-07-29 (page v1.1: retired "Stay in the Loop" block replaced with the locked free-sheet block and MOVED to the post-payoff peak, plus the email_signup snippet). (3) can-you-use-flavored-spirits-in-a-bartesian.html 2026-07-16 -> 2026-07-29 (page v1.2: same email-block migration + snippet). PENDING-LASTMOD SWEEP RUN AND NOW CLEAR: the one item v42 deliberately left pending was this same safety page, held back because the Jul 18 duration fix could not be verified live. RESOLVED this session by reading the file directly .... its two VideoObject durations read PT2M45S and PT0M19S, so the Jul 18 correction is present. That closes Master_To_Do item 10 and the Jul 18 edit rides in on this Jul 29 bump. No URL added; still 32 URLs. ROOT-CAUSE NOTE for the two flavored-spirits pages: both were BUILT FRESH Jul 15, two weeks after the "Stay in the Loop" block was retired (Jul 1), and page_audit approved them because it only tested for the form ID data-form="fGMIsB", which the retired and locked blocks both carry. Audit hardened to page_audit_v4.py v4.3 the same day. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v42 (July 29, 2026): bumped which-bartesian-to-buy.html lastmod 2026-07-15 -> 2026-07-29. TWO page edits are covered by this one bump, because the v3.4 edit never got a lastmod at all: (a) v3.4 (Jul 24) SEO phrase pass, 4 keyword phrases added, sitemap was never bumped for it .... this closes that gap; (b) v3.5 (Jul 29) added the community-sourced Duet second-machine paragraph, the GA4 email_signup snippet, a two-dash de-dash, and a dateModified bump. No URL added; still 32 URLs. PENDING-LASTMOD SWEEP RUN: one item found and deliberately LEFT PENDING .... can-you-use-flavored-spirits-in-a-bartesian.html (lastmod 2026-07-16) had a duration-fix file re-uploaded Jul 18 whose live state was never verified (Master_To_Do item 10); a live fetch Jul 29 was inconclusive because the corrected build may not have bumped its own modified_time. Not bumped rather than bumped on an assumption. Recorded in the PENDING LASTMOD line above. Resubmit in GSC after upload to prompt re-crawl. -->
<!-- Sitemap v41 (July 16, 2026): bumped can-you-use-flavored-spirits-in-a-bartesian.html lastmod 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-16 (VIDEO ENRICHMENT: added longform yuxK2EskLSQ + short UGg0XDA410c as click-to-load facades + 2 VideoObject schema blocks in head). No URL added; still 32 URLs. Homepage + reviews unchanged (card content identical), lastmod stays 2026-07-15. Pending-lastmod swept = none. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v40 (July 15, 2026): bumped which-bartesian-to-buy.html lastmod 2026-07-02 -> 2026-07-15 (SEO title rewrite: head/SERP <title> changed to "Bartesian Premium vs Professional vs Duet vs Premier: Which to Buy" to capture buyer-intent "premium vs professional" search queries; CTR fix, no on-page/content change). No URL added; still 32 URLs. Pending-lastmod swept = none. Resubmit in GSC after upload to prompt re-crawl. -->
<!-- Sitemap v39 (July 15, 2026): added best-flavored-spirits-for-bartesian.html (flavored-spirit pairings guide) and can-you-use-flavored-spirits-in-a-bartesian.html (flavored-spirit safety/method guide), both published July 15, lastmod 2026-07-15, monthly/0.8, grouped after the gin essay. Also bumped homepage / lastmod 2026-07-08 to 2026-07-15 (Featured grid: added both new cards at positions 3-4, dropped Aviation review + DIY pods to hold 12) and reviews.html lastmod 2026-07-08 to 2026-07-15 (both new cards added at positions 3-4 of Blog & Guides). Aviation + DIY pages remain live (hub-listed), so they stay in the sitemap. Total: 32 URLs (was 30). Pending-lastmod list swept = none. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v38 (July 8, 2026): bumped index.html (homepage) lastmod 2026-05-26 to 2026-07-08 (Featured Articles grid rebuilt from 9 stale cards to a curated 12, fixed the stale comparison link, de-dashed cards, added a Browse-all link to the hub, and cleared 4 audit flags). No URL added; still 30 URLs. Pending-lastmod list swept = none. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v37 (July 8, 2026): added i-thought-i-didnt-like-gin.html (first-person gin essay "I thought I didn't like gin", published July 8), lastmod 2026-07-08, monthly/0.8, grouped after the travel story. Also bumped reviews.html lastmod 2026-07-07 to 2026-07-08 (gin essay card added at position 3 of Blog & Guides, travel story pushed to position 4). Total: 30 URLs (was 29). Pending-lastmod list swept = none. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v36 (July 7, 2026): added traveling-with-a-bartesian.html (first-person travel story "I brought my Bartesian on vacation", published July 7), lastmod 2026-07-07, monthly/0.8, grouped after the DIY-pods guide. reviews.html re-edited the same day (travel card added at position 3 of Blog & Guides, DIY-pods -> 4, sale guide -> 5); its lastmod stays 2026-07-07. Total: 29 URLs (was 28). Pending-lastmod list swept = none. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v35 (July 7, 2026): added can-you-make-your-own-bartesian-pods.html (Educational owner's guide "can you make your own Bartesian pods", published July 7), lastmod 2026-07-07, monthly/0.8, grouped after the sale-timing guide. Also bumped reviews.html lastmod 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-07 (DIY-pods card added at position 3 of Blog & Guides, sale guide pushed to position 4). Total: 28 URLs (was 27). Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v34 (July 3, 2026): added when-does-bartesian-go-on-sale.html (Educational buying guide "when does a Bartesian go on sale", published July 3), lastmod 2026-07-03, monthly/0.8, grouped after the Premier review. Also bumped reviews.html lastmod 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-03 (sale-guide card added at position 3 of Blog & Guides). Total: 27 URLs (was 26). Pending-lastmod list swept = none. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v33 (July 2, 2026): bumped which-bartesian-to-buy.html lastmod 2026-07-01 to 2026-07-02 (VIDEO PHASE: added the longform U_DD9OsKu8Q + short JxeGWvLPiaM as click-to-load facades plus two VideoObject schema blocks; page is now v3.2; also swapped the Professional photo to the owner unboxing shot). No URL changes; still 26 URLs. Pending-lastmod list swept = none. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v32 (July 1, 2026): bumped bartesian-premier-review.html lastmod 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-01 (VIDEO PHASE: added the longform + short YouTube videos as click-to-load facades plus two VideoObject schema blocks; page is now v1.5). No URL changes; still 26 URLs. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v31 (July 1, 2026): bumped how-to-make-better-bartesian-cocktails.html lastmod 2026-05-25 to 2026-06-25 (enriched Jun 25; was the outstanding pending-lastmod item that should have ridden with v30). Added the SITEMAP EDIT GATE block above so the pending list is visible in-file at every future edit. No URL changes; still 26 URLs. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v30 (July 1, 2026): RENAMED the machine comparison URL from bartesian-duet-vs-premium-vs-professional.html to which-bartesian-to-buy.html (page rebuilt to four machines including the new Premier; 301 redirect from the old slug is live in .htaccess). Bumped its lastmod 2026-06-16 to 2026-07-01. Also bumped reviews.html lastmod 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-01 (comparison card moved to position 2 in Blog & Guides + real duet-margarita thumbnail swapped in for the old placeholder). Total: 26 URLs (unchanged; swap not add). Request Indexing on the new URL + resubmit this sitemap in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v29 (June 29, 2026): added bartesian-premier-review.html (Bartesian Premier machine review), lastmod 2026-06-29, monthly/0.8, grouped with the machine comparison. Also bumped reviews.html lastmod 2026-06-17 to 2026-06-29 (Premier card added + email CTA swapped to the free sheet + hub sections reordered so Blog & Guides leads). Total: 26 URLs (was 25). Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v28 (June 17, 2026): added do-bartesian-pods-expire.html (educational pod storage / expiration guide, published June 17), lastmod 2026-06-17, monthly/0.8, grouped with the other guides after the calorie guide. Also bumped reviews.html lastmod 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-17 (new guide card added to the Blog & Guides grid). Total: 25 URLs (was 24). All other URLs unchanged. Resubmit in GSC after upload. -->
<!-- Sitemap v27 (June 16, 2026): added affiliate-disclosure.html (priority 0.3, lastmod 2026-05-25). It was built but HELD out until the first affiliate program activated; the Bartesian affiliate program went live today, so the hold condition is met and the page is now included. Total: 24 URLs (was 23). -->
<!-- Sitemap v26 (June 16, 2026): bumped lastmod on bartesian-duet-vs-premium-vs-professional.html from 2026-05-26 to 2026-06-16 (page updated today: affiliate tracking links, Kit to MailerLite, FAQ schema, About-this-article note, three machine photos). URL list unchanged, still 23 URLs. affiliate-disclosure.html still NOT included. Resubmit in GSC after upload to prompt recrawl. -->
<!-- Sitemap v25 (June 11, 2026): added bartesian-whiskey-sour-pod-review.html (whiskey pod review, skeleton publish June 11), lastmod 2026-06-11, monthly/0.8, grouped with the other pod reviews. Total: 23 URLs (was 22). affiliate-disclosure.html still NOT included (held until first affiliate program activates). All other URLs unchanged. -->
<!-- Sitemap v24 — June 10, 2026 — MERGE FIX (master chat): added the two review URLs missing from the live v23 (bartesian-lemon-drop-pod-review.html + bartesian-bees-knees-pod-review.html), both lastmod 2026-06-10, monthly/0.8, grouped with the other pod reviews. Resolves the two-chat collision where the live sitemap had Uptown but not BK/LD. Total: 22 URLs (was 20). affiliate-disclosure.html still NOT included — remains BUILT BUT HELD until first affiliate program activates. All other URLs unchanged. -->
<!-- Sitemap v23 — June 10, 2026 — Added bartesian-uptown-rocks-pod-review.html (gin pod review, SKELETON publish June 10), lastmod 2026-06-10, monthly/0.8 matching the other pod reviews. Also bumped reviews.html to 2026-06-10 (Uptown Rocks card added to Pod Reviews, placed first). Total: 20 URLs (was 19). affiliate-disclosure.html still NOT included — remains BUILT BUT HELD until first affiliate program activates. All other URLs unchanged from v22. -->
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