[Koha] How can I make my koha library to searchable in google search engine?

[David Nind]

robots.txt file
=========

For a little bit of information about the robots.txt file see:
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_Tuning_Guide#Reduce_CPU_usage_of_webcrawlers:_robots.txt

This controls what well-behaved crawlers will or will not index - this is
more a general Apache/web server configuration thing, than a Koha thing.

XML sitemaps
===========

Koha has an optional sitemap cronjob that generates an XML sitemap that
search engines such as Google use - see:

   - https://www.sitemaps.org/
   - https://koha-community.org/manual/20.05/en/html/cron_jobs.html#sitemap
   (the manual information about the sitemap script in Koha)
   - https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11190 (the
   original bug it was introduced in)
   - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en (Google
   webmaster sitemap information)

It basically (when setup right) gives search engines a definitive list of
all the content you want indexed.

Rich snippets in search engine results (schema.org)
========================================

The Koha OPAC includes schema.org metadata in pages for records (look at
the source for a record in the OPAC), this can add useful "snippets" to
search engine results. See:

   - https://schema.org/
   -
   https://www.semrush.com/blog/what-is-schema-beginner-s-guide-to-structured-data/
   (looks like an okay resource - has some nice screenshots of what rich
   snippets could look like)



David Nind | david.nind at gmail.com
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 20:54, Vincent Van Gogh <loveandmarigold at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, I'll check it out.
>
> On Mon, 28 Sep, 2020, 8:15 AM Mason James, <mtj at kohaaloha.com> wrote:
>
> > On 27/09/20 5:14 pm, Vincent Van Gogh wrote:
> > > How can I make my koha library to searchable in google search engine?
> >
> > hi Vincent
> > here's some info from google...
> >
> > https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34397?hl=en
> >
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