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From Dave B: way to improve site SEO? #93

Open Chovin opened 4 years ago

Chovin commented 4 years ago

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Is there a way to make records and images show up in search engine results? Able to add to a site map xml? Or bury all the species names in the page code? Would be AWESOME if our images showed up in google image search results, would greatly increase global visibility

Chovin commented 4 years ago

This is a difficult one as we'll need to switch over to server-side rendering. Not only that, but we're pulling from a database. I'll see what we can do though. Might be able to make it crawl-able

Chovin commented 4 years ago

@burdickdr just bringing attention to the comment

burdickdr commented 4 years ago

I thought about this one after seeing images of individual specimens collected by the California Academy of Sciences and as part of the Moorea Biocode project show up in google image search results. Those images are not directly linked to their specimen database, though, and instead were provided separately to a project called CalPhotos that just aims to make the images publicly available. So what I was wondering is if it would be possible to make the Specify specimen images crawl-able without having to provide the images to another site or create our own. It may not be possible without tons of work, if at all, but it would be good know either way. in addition to just saving a lot of time by not having to deal with the images separately, it would also be more regularly and automatically updated, rather than having to manually add new images to the separate website. It would also be a huge benefit to have the specimen record info readily available to anyone who finds an image online, since the thumb could take them directly to that pre-loaded query in our portal. This sounds like a big lift, though, so yet something else to put a pin in and perhaps consider where it falls in the priority list after this contract is completed.