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Here is also a link to a presentation that Bobbi Fox did at a Digital Library Federation conference back in 2008, which details some of Harvard Library's efforts in this area: http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2008/presentations/Fox.pdf ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:26:33 +0000 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eoghan_=D3_Carrag=E1in?= <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo! Here is one from 2008 code4lib journal: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/43 Eoghan On 24 February 2012 16:49, Cynthia Ng <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > 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 > <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> 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 <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> > > 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 > ------------------------------