What to Do When Google Ignores Your Fedora Objects

Speaker(s): 
Robin Dean, Jonathan Green
Conference Track: 
Fedora User Group
Slides: 
application/pdf iconFedora SEO Presentation.pdf

Schedule info

Time slot: 
11 July 17:30 - 18:00
Room: 
Sir John A

What to Do When Google Ignores Your Fedora Objects

Submitted by robin.dean on Mon, 2013-03-04 18:12
Author(s)
First Name: 
Robin
Last Name: 
Dean
Affiliation: 
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
First Name: 
Jonathan
Last Name: 
Green
Affiliation: 
Discovery Garden, Inc.
Keywords: 
Fedora Commons; Islandora; SEO; RSS; RDFa; Google indexing
Track: 
Fedora User Group
Submission Type: 
Paper
Abstract: 

This session will describe how we used RSS sitemaps and RDFa microdata to improve Google indexing and search result snippets for the Fedora objects in our Islandora repository. Though we are using a custom Islandora solution, the general principles will be applicable to any site using Islandora/Fedora. We will conclude with a discussion of other search engine optimization (SEO) efforts in Islandora, such as the optimization of institutional repository (IR) sites for indexing in Google Scholar.

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