Therapist Website Studio

Sitemap and robots

The sitemap lists the real URLs. Robots.txt does not hide the practice.

A sitemap is a list, not a boost. Robots.txt is a request about crawling, and a mistake there can block the site. We check both against the pages we published.

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Example bespoke sites

Morrow Lane is a designed example of a practice website. Morrow Lane is a designed example. Its sitemap is not a live submission.

morrowlane.exampleDesigned example
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Two women in conversation during an in-person counselling session

Manchester · Online across the UK

Space to work through what matters

Individual counselling in Manchester, and online across the UK. Anxiety, grief, and what is hard to put into words.

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Anxiety

£70

50 minutes

For worry that is taking up the week. We stay with it, rather than rushing you towards a fix.

A man and a counsellor sitting quietly together

Grief

£70

50 minutes

For a death, or another loss. There is no date by which you should feel better.

A woman speaking to a laptop by a window

Online sessions

£70

50 minutes

The same counsellor, from your own home, anywhere in the UK.

The first session

A chance to see if this is the right counselling.

We talk about what you want from the work and how often we would meet. You do not need to send a history beforehand. Please give 48 hours if you need to cancel. What you say in the session stays there, except where the law requires otherwise.

One fee, in the room or online

£70

50 minutes · Manchester, or online across the UK

A short note is enough

Your name, your email, and the Manchester room or online. Please do not include a clinical history.

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Morrow Lane Counselling

Manchester · Individual counselling, anxiety and grief

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Designed example

SEO, AI AEO and language models

therapy sitemap and robots file, ready for the four answer engines.

We focus on crawlable HTML and structured data for the therapy sitemap and robots file. Google, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity are where that service shows up. The design is the easy part.

  • Google

    Search · AI Overviews · Gemini

    Google can retrieve the therapy sitemap and robots file because a therapy sitemap and robots file puts a sitemap of the real URLs, and a robots file that does not block them in ordinary HTML, where a crawler can read it without a script.

    • Googlebot
    • Google-Extended

  • OpenAI

    ChatGPT

    ChatGPT search reads the page once OAI-SearchBot fetches it, where the a therapy sitemap and robots file sentence a model can cite is a sitemap of the real URLs, and a robots file that does not block them, not a broader label.

    • OAI-SearchBot
    • GPTBot
    • ChatGPT-User

  • Anthropic

    Claude

    Claude indexes the page as text: structured data for a therapy sitemap and robots file repeats a sitemap of the real URLs, and a robots file that does not block them and does not add a claim the page does not show.

    • Claude-SearchBot
    • ClaudeBot
    • Claude-User

  • Perplexity

    Perplexity

    Perplexity can cite the therapy sitemap and robots file because the next public link from a therapy sitemap and robots file is a real page on this site, beside a sitemap of the real URLs, and a robots file that does not block them.

    • PerplexityBot
    • Perplexity-User

Under the surface

a therapy sitemap and robots file, shown as data.

This block is on the page because a robots file can hide a whole site by accident, so the list of real URLs is shown because we check it before launch. That is the layer we focus on and care about, and the sample matches the a therapy sitemap and robots file a person can read.

JSON-LD · schema.orgWhat the crawler is given
{
  "@type": "Service",
  "name": "a therapy sitemap and robots file",
  "serviceType": "Sitemaps and robots.txt for therapy websites",
  "description": "a sitemap of the real URLs, and a robots file that does not block them"
}

The website we deliver

The therapy sitemap and robots file we deliver

We generate the sitemap from the pages that exist: home, services you offer, about, contact, and a location only if you have one. Drafts and thank-you screens stay off the list. Robots.txt allows those public pages. We do not disallow / because a template did. A private admin path can be disallowed if one exists. The file is not where we put clinical rules. After launch, Search Console is where the sitemap can be submitted for a property you verify. We do not invent a “submitted and indexed” count on this page.

The usual way in for therapy sitemap and robots file is Standard Managed: £149 setup and £49 a month for 12 months, then Website Care at £39. Growth Managed is £249 and £69 a month when each real service needs its own page, then £49. Prices include VAT. Outright is £650 or £995. The domain stays in your name. The monthly fee is management, and the site is not paid off when the fee drops.

How this therapy sitemap and robots file is built for search and AI answers

Google’s sitemap guidance is that a sitemap helps discovery and does not guarantee indexing. A noindex page should not be in the list. Robots.txt cannot noindex a page. If a page must stay out, we say so on the page, and we usually have no such page on a practice site. Structured data lives on the page, not in the sitemap as a substitute. Answer engines are not controlled by robots.txt in the way people hope, so the public words still have to be right. The same facts sit in the HTML and in structured data, so Google, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity can quote a sitemap of the real URLs, and a robots file that does not block them.

The other sitemap page

The private-practice sitemap guide is the page plan: which human pages exist. This page is the XML list and the robots file that sit beside it.

We do not sell a sitemap as an add-on. It is part of the site.

What we publish for a therapy sitemap and robots file, and what we leave off.
On the page we buildLeft off
Real URLs onlyEvery draft and tag
Robots allows the public siteA template that disallows /
Sitemap submitted in Search ConsoleA count we invented
Noindex is on the pageA robots line mistaken for noindex

What stays with you

We do not promise indexing because a sitemap exists, and we do not block the public pages. You approve the public words. We do not write treatment, consent forms or clinical records, and we do not promise a ranking, an enquiry total, or a mention in an AI answer.

A free website review, or a free consultation

A free website review if you already have a public site, or a free 20-minute consultation if you do not.

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therapy sitemap and robots file, on the published price.

a therapy sitemap and robots file is part of the published website offer. It is not a new price, and it does not buy rankings or AI mentions.

Growth Managed

£249

setup

+ £69/month

Then Growth Website Care at £49/month after 12 months.

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Or buy outright

£650

or £995

Pay in full, or across 3 payments. Those payments are not the managed plan.

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Prices include VAT. Your domain stays in your name. The monthly fee is management, and the site is not paid off when the fee drops.

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Questions

Does a sitemap make me rank?
No. It lists URLs. Indexing is separate.
Should I disallow Google?
Not on the public practice pages. That is how a site disappears.
Is this the same as the page-plan sitemap?
No. That guide is which pages to have. This is the file crawlers read.

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Request a free website design review if you already have a site, or book a free 20-minute consultation if you are starting from scratch.

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Sources

Checked 4 October 2026. These pages explain the public rules. They are not a ranking promise.