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Ensuring your DSpace is indexed

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Please be aware that individual search engines also have their own guidelines and recommendations for inclusion. While the guidelines below apply to most DSpace sites, you may also wish to review these guidelines for specific search engines:

Ensuring your DSpace is indexed

Anyone who has analyzed traffic to their DSpace site (e.g. using Google Analytics or similar) will notice that a significant (and in many cases a majority) of visitors arrive via a search engine such as Google or Yahoo. Hence, to help maximize the impact of content and thus encourage further deposits, it is important to ensure that your DSpace instance is indexed effectively.

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  1. Keep your DSpace up to date. We are constantly adding new indexing improvements in new releases
  2. Ensure your DSpace is visible to search engines.
  3. Enable the sitemaps feature – this does not require e.g. registering with Google Webmaster tools.
  4. Ensure your robots.txt allows access to item "splash" pages and full text.
  5. Ensure item metadata appears in HTML headers correctly.
  6. Avoid redirecting file downloads to Item landing pages
  7. Turn OFF any generation of PDF cover pages
  8. 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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