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Comment: Amplify the recommendation for sitemaps.

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DSpace provides a sitemap feature that we highly recommend you enable to ensure proper indexing.  Sitemaps allow DSpace to expose its content in a way that makes it easily accessible to search engine crawlers.  Sitemaps also help ensure that crawlers do NOT have to visit every page in your DSpace (which means the crawlers can get in and get out quickly, without taxing your site).  Without sitemaps, search engine indexing activity may impose signifiacant loads on your repository.

HTML sitemaps provide a list of all items, collections and communities in HTML format, whilst Google sitemaps provide the same information in gzipped XML format.

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