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DSpace comes with tools that ensure major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo, Google Scholar) are able to easily and effectively index all your content. However, many of these tools provide some basic setup.  Here's how to ensure your site is indexed.

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titleBasic SEO validation is now provided in the DSpace Admin User Interface

As of DSpace 9.0, DSpace now has a basic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) validator which can provide you feedback on how well your site may align with the below SEO policies.  At this time, this validation tool can only check three things: (1) your site is using server-side-rendering (SSR), (2) your site has sitemaps enabled and they appear to be working, (3) your site has a robots.txt which links to your sitemaps.

This validation tool can be found in the Admin User Interface on the "Health" page.  Look for the section named "SEO".  If everything looks good, you'll see a green checkbox.  If there is feedback to address, you'll see a red warning with details on what needs to be addressed.


For the optimum indexing, you should:

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