Dear members of the community, If you are currently running DSpace 1.5 or DSpace 1.5.1, your site is not being indexed by Google, Google scholar or any public search engine for that matter. The issue has been fixed in 1.5.2. However, you can fix the problem immediately by removing the line in the robots.txt file that reads disallow:/browse.
I highly recommend you take this simple action as soon as possible so your publicly available content is indexed. As many of you know as much as 60% of traffic to your DSpace resources comes from Google and other public search engines. You can find more detail at: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Ensuring_your_instance_is_indexed To improve the ability of your site to be indexed you should also install site maps- which makes it much easier for any search engine to discover all the links within your site. This is part of version 1.5.2, but you can also install a patch at: http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-35 Google and most other search engines do not use OAI-PMH for indexing, please do not rely on this protocol for search engine exposure. Let me know if you have any questions. best, Michele Kimpton Executive Director, DSpace Foundation ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
