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Comment: Added few words about and link to sitemaps; added note about lock down option

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The Drupal XML Sitemap module automatically creates and updates an XML sitemap to guide search engines indexing the website. However, it does not include links to Islandora repository objects by default. By using the Drupal XML Sitemap Custom module together with the Islandora XML Sitemap module, URLs for Islandora objects will be automatically added to the XML sitemap module database as custom links. Including Islandora objects in the Drupal sitemap makes them more likely to be correctly indexed by search engines.

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Please also note that objects marked as "inactive", whether manually or by using the Simple Workflow module, will still be indexed by default.  You can prevent this by enabling the option "Lock down inactive and deleted objects" under admin/islandora/configure.

Larger sites with greater than 100,000 objects may encounter issues during the sitemap building process with the default configuration, such as the process hanging around a specific number indefinitely or exiting the process entirely before completion. These users may want to try unchecking the "Prefetch URL aliases during sitemap generation" option found on the xmlsitemap admin configuration page (/admin/config/search/xmlsitemap/settings) and trying the process again.

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