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

Vincent Van Gogh loveandmarigold at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 02:42:27 NZDT 2020


Awesome, thanks!

On Mon, 28 Sep, 2020, 2:36 PM David Nind, <david.nind at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> PO Box 12367, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand 6144
> m. +64 21 0537 847
>
>
> 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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