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43. Include an XML Sitemap for web based publications.

XML Sitemaps containing links to all of the content in a website ensure that website archiving crawlers will be able to locate all of the content. Doing so may also improve search engine optimization. Sitemaps that are intended to facilitate web archiving should include links for all texts, resource landing pages, downloads, and views of the data i.e. API URLs that are called dynamically while the user is interacting with the page and each combination of query parameters that may appear.

This guideline will make creating a sitemap simpler: