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_st...@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.thearchiv...@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
