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Avoid redirecting file downloads to Item landing pages

Make sure that you never redirect some or all "direct file downloads" (i.e. users who directly jump to downloading a file, often from a search engine results page) to the associated Item's splash/landing page.  In the past, some DSpace sites have added these custom URL redirects in order to facilitate capturing statistics via Google Analytics or similar.

While these URL redirects may seem harmless, they may be flagged as cloaking or spam by Google, Google Scholar and other major search engines. This may hurt your site's search engine ranking or even cause your entire site to be flagged for removal from the search engine.

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