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====== Search Engine Optimization ====== | ====== Search Engine Optimization ====== | ||
- | In some cases, you may wish to make sure that the contents of your VuFind | + | In some cases, you may wish to make sure that the contents of your VuFind® |
===== Sitemaps ===== | ===== Sitemaps ===== | ||
- | // This feature was added after the release of VuFind | + | // This feature was added after the release of VuFind® |
- | Several search engines look for sitemap files which list all of the pages of your site and ensure that no content is missed during indexing. | + | Several search engines look for sitemap files which list all of the pages of your site and ensure that no content is missed during indexing. |
- | VuFind | + | VuFind® |
- | 1. Edit the [[configuration: | + | 1. Edit the [[configuration: |
- | 2. Switch to the util folder under your VuFind installation, | + | 2. Run the sitemap generator: |
+ | |||
+ | :!: This is an example command. See also [[administration: | ||
< | < | ||
- | php sitemap.php | + | cd $VUFIND_HOME |
+ | VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR=`pwd`/ | ||
</ | </ | ||
- | This may take some time. When it is complete, your sitemap file(s) | + | This may take some time. When it is complete, your sitemap file(s) |
- | You may wish to automate this so that sitemaps are built on a regular basis; see the [[administration: | + | You may wish to automate this so that sitemaps are built on a regular basis; see the [[administration: |
+ | |||
+ | Since the sitemap generation takes some time, it is recommended to generate the sitemap files in a temporary directory and move them in place only when completed. Otherwise the robots may try to crawl incomplete sitemap information while the generation is still in progress. Make sure to clean up any old sitemap files from the temporary directory before generating new ones, and from the public directory when copying them over. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 3. Include a reference to the sitemap in [[administration: | ||
+ | |||
+ | :!: This is an incomplete excerpt to illustrate the Sitemap option. The Sitemap URL must be fully-qualified. | ||
+ | |||
+ | < | ||
+ | User-agent: * | ||
+ | Disallow: /AJAX | ||
+ | |||
+ | Sitemap: http:// | ||
+ | </ | ||
==== Best Practices ==== | ==== Best Practices ==== | ||
- | If you have important static content pages (landing pages, texts about services/ | + | === Exposing Static |
+ | If you have important static content pages (landing pages, texts about services/ | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Understand Crawling Budgets === | ||
+ | |||
+ | A VuFind® site can easily have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of pages in its sitemaps -- it's all dependent on the number of records in your index. Search engines will take a significant amount of time to crawl all of these pages, and even more time to detect changes. Be aware that publishing a sitemap will not instantly lead to full visibility of all of your content. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Note that the effect of your settings on crawling budgets is dependent on each indexer. e.g. [[https:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | If you want to adjust the frequency for other bots, it is recommended to significantly reduce this setting if you have a high amount of records, or else the indexers might take months to crawl all of your pages and might waste the crawl budget by downloading the same sites over and over again even if there are no changes at all. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Using Search Engine Tools === | ||
+ | |||
+ | Creating a sitemap is only half the battle; the rest is informing search engines about it. Tools like [[https:// | ||
==== Technical Details ==== | ==== Technical Details ==== | ||
- | Early versions of VuFind | + | Early versions of VuFind® |
+ | |||
+ | ===== Staying Informed ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Search engine optimization is challenging to maintain, because search engines are constantly changing their rules for crawling and ranking. Google, for example, can update its procedures hundreds of times every year (see [[https:// | ||
===== Related Pages ===== | ===== Related Pages ===== | ||
[[administration: | [[administration: | ||
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+ | ===== Related Video ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | You can learn more about sitemaps through the [[videos: | ||
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administration/search_engine_optimization.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/08 11:20 by demiankatz