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Much more information is available in the Configuration section on Google Scholar Metadata Mappings.
Some DSpace sites make the mistake of redirecting some or all "direct file downloads" (i.e. users who directly jump to downloading a file, often from a search engine results page) to the associated Item's splash/landing page. This may be done to facilitate capturing analytics/statistics via Google Analytics or similar Javascript based analytics.
While these URL redirects may seem harmless, such URLs may be flagged as cloaking or spam by Google and other major search engines. This, in turn, may hurt your site's search engine ranking or even cause your entire site to be flagged for removal from the search engine.
If you have these URL redirects in place, it is highly recommended to remove them immediately. If you created these redirects to facilitate capturing download statistics in Google Analytics, you should instead consider upgrading to DSpace 5.0 or above, which is able to automatically record bitstream downloads in Google Analytics (see DS-2088) without the need for any URL redirects.
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