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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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Because the DSpace user interface is based on Angular.io (which is a javascript framework), you MUST have server-side rendering enabled (which is the default) for search engines to fully index your side. Server-side rendering allows your site to still function even when Javascript is turned off in a user's browser. Some web crawlers do not support Javascript (e.g. Google Scholar), so they will only interact with this server-side rendered content.
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