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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 system are visible beyond your local site. This page provides tips and tools for increasing and controlling search engine visibility. | + | In some cases, you may wish to make sure that the contents of your VuFind system are visible beyond your local site. This page provides tips and tools for increasing and controlling search engine visibility. |
===== Sitemaps ===== | ===== Sitemaps ===== | ||
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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: | ||
+ | ==== Best Practices ==== | ||
+ | === Exposing Static / Multi-lingual Content === | ||
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+ | If you have important static content pages (landing pages, texts about services/ | ||
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+ | === Understand Crawling Budgets === | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | === Using Search Engine Tools === | ||
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+ | 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 made use of the standard Solr [[http:// | Early versions of VuFind made use of the standard Solr [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===== Staying Informed ===== | ||
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+ | 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/search_engine_optimization.txt · Last modified: 2024/05/08 11:20 by demiankatz