Hi,
Redirects of PDF URLs are also a problem with our 5.8 installation.
Can the configuration
google.citation_pdf_url = $simple-pdf
in the file "google-metadata.properties" be changed to provide the
direkt PDF URLs?
Best regards
Franziska Rapp
Am 05.01.2021 um 13:44 schrieb Alex Fletcher:
We've found recently that Google Scholar is having some issues with
their crawler having a lot of trouble matching the PDF URLs with the
correct repository record/landing page with the associated metadata
because of redirects in place for the PDF URLs.
For example, https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/handle/1974/28134
lists in the metatags
<meta
content="https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/1974/28134/10/Public-Water-Covid-19.pdf"name="citation_pdf_url";>
But for the crawler, this PDF URL redirects to another URL:
Fetched Header
Permanent redirect (301) to
https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/28134/Public-Water-Covid-19.pdf;jsessionid=3681375205557337FE2EA1F5058CED47?sequence=10
This is being flagged as suspicious behavior (cloaking) by the
indexing system, so this redirect is not followed.
I looked through the DSpace documentation and found this page
https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC5x/Search+Engine+Optimization#SearchEngineOptimization-AvoidredirectingfiledownloadstoItemlandingpages
Which states:
Make sure that you never redirect "direct file downloads" (i.e. users
who directly jump to downloading a file, often from a search engine)
to the associated Item's splash/landing page. In the past, some
DSpace sites have added these custom URL redirects in order to
facilitate capturing statistics via Google Analytics or similar.
We've never put those in, and are using stock code for that segment.
Is there a configuration variable somewhere to disable this auto URL
redirect that we've missed somewhere?
Alex
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