Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

Here is also a  link to a presentation that Bobbi Fox did at a Digital Library Federation conference back in 2008, which details some of Harvard Library's efforts in this area:
http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2008/presentations/Fox.pdf



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Date:    Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:26:33 +0000

From:    =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eoghan_=D3_Carrag=E1in?= <eoghan.ocarragain_at_GMAIL.COM<mailto:eoghan.ocarragain_at_GMAIL.COM>>

Subject: Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!



Here is one from 2008 code4lib journal:

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/43



Eoghan



On 24 February 2012 16:49, Cynthia Ng <cynthia.s.ng_at_gmail.com<mailto:cynthia.s.ng_at_gmail.com>> wrote:



> I would definitely like to see something like this written up as a

> journal article. "How to expose your collection to search engines"

>

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Stern, Randall

> <randy_stern_at_harvard.edu<mailto:randy_stern_at_harvard.edu>> wrote:

> > In order to make more open access data available on the web, this is

> what Harvard does for most of our silo catalogs of images, finding aids,

> geospatial data sets, and page turned digital objects (full text) - creates

> easily crawlable, meta-tagged index pages for each item.

> >

> > The result is that for our finding aids (lots of text data exposed) we

> see about 3-4X as many referrals from search engines as we do searches in

> our native interface, and for images (brief metadata exposed) about a 30%

> bump for search engine referrals.

> >

> >

> > -----------------------------------

> > Date:    Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:54:33 +0000

> > From:    Dave Caroline <dave.thearchivist_at_GMAIL.COM<mailto:dave.thearchivist_at_GMAIL.COM>>

> > Subject: Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

> >

> > To avoid sessions and other silliness just expose a search engine

> > friendly format without sessions.

> >

> > As I dont have local visitors google traffic matters.

> >

> > 86.62% Search Traffic

> >  2.41% Referral Traffic

> > 10.98% Direct Traffic

> >

> > For my tiny corner on the web

> >

> > Dave Caroline

>



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