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- Keep your DSpace up to date. We are constantly adding new indexing improvements in new releases
- Ensure your DSpace is visible to search engines.
Ensure your proxy is passing X-Forwarded headers to the User Interface
- Ensure the user interface is using server-side rendering (enabled by default)
- Ensure the sitemaps feature is enabled. (enabled by default)
- Ensure your robots.txt allows access to item "splash" pages and full text.
- Ensure item metadata appears in HTML headers correctly.
- Avoid redirecting file downloads to Item landing pages
- Turn OFF any generation of PDF cover pages
- As an aside, it's worth noting that OAI-PMH is generally not useful to search engines. OAI-PMH has its own uses, but do not expect search engines to use it.
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- Google: http://www.google.com/addurl
- Yahoo: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
- Bing: http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
Ensure your proxy is passing X-Forwarded
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headers to the User Interface
Some HTML tags important for SEO, such as the "citation_pdf_url" tag, require the full URL of your site. The DSpace user interface will automatically attempt to "discover" that URL using HTTP Headers.
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