We even don't use a sitemap for our VuFind based discovery interface.
But Googlebot is our best customer. The "nice URLs" VuFind provides and
plenty of links between records help Google harvesting...
About 1/3 of our ~500 "real users" (users doing at least one search and
looking at search results) per day originate from Google searches... And
some (don't have exact numbers, but it happens) of those discover the
DFG Nationallizenzen that way and sign up for an account... Mission
accomplished: More user for a library service catched on the web (or at
Google :-)
Till
Am 02.09.2010 22:59, schrieb Jonathan Rochkind:
> Hey, can you guys who use SiteMaps for large catalogs give us URLs for
> your sitemap files, or examples?
>
> I'm curious if you're using the lastmod, changefreq, or priority
> attributes, or just listing the urls straight.
>
> Jonathan
>
> Mark Triggs wrote:
>> 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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