Demian Katz <demian.katz_at_VILLANOVA.EDU> writes:
>> IF your discovery software is actually constructed in a sane way (which
>> is a BIG if for actual library software), this is not a difficult thing
>> to add on to it, and requires such small resources that a lot of people
>> won't bother asking for ROI justification. But, again, that is a very
>> big if. With Blacklight, or I'm sure VuFind, it would be pretty easy to
>> add a feature to create a google sitemap. .
>
> We're doing some preliminary investigations of generating Google
> sitemaps for VuFind at Villanova -- as you say, I don't think it's
> going to prove to be too complicated, though we'll have to put it into
> practice to see if it achieves the desired effects!
We've had success using Google sitemaps for the National Library of
Australia's Catalogue. We put sitemaps in during late 2008 and Google
has been good about crawling our (many) pages:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:catalogue.nla.gov.au
The difference it had in our traffic levels took us quite by surprise.
We had to do some hurried optimisations to deal with the sudden leap in
traffic, and Google analytics now report that a bit under 90% of our
incoming page views are people being referred from search engines
(mostly from Google, but they *would* say that ;)).
Cheers,
Mark
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Mark Triggs
Systems Administrator
Business Systems Support, The National Library of Australia
<mtriggs_at_nla.gov.au>
Received on Thu Sep 02 2010 - 16:45:27 EDT