ُGoogle scholar indexing problem

[habibi]

Hello everyone, 

I have installed DSpace 8.2 (migrating from 6.2 to 8.2) after setting up SSL, everything works fine, but although it is indexed in Google and shows about 140,000 links (we have 40000 items) in the results, Google Scholar does not show any results. In the SSR check, by disabling JavaScript in the browser, it seems that the problem is in the SSR. For further check, I ran the "yarn run serve:ssr" command and encountered 404 error in some cases, the error image is attached. Please advise how to fix this problem.

[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi,

I don't see any errors in that "yarn" output.  The messages that start with "The response for...has the self link.." can be ignored.  Those are not errors.  They are development messages which can be safely ignored in production.

Regarding indexing in Google Scholar, you should make sure you are following all the Search Engine Optimization recommendations in our documentation: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Search+Engine+Optimization   Those recommendations have been created with Google Scholar in mind, so you must follow them for Google Scholar to be able to index your site.

If you continue to find Google Scholar isn't indexing your site, you should also look at their troubleshooting guide or reach out to them for more advice: https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html#troubleshooting

Tim

[habibi]

Thanks Tim
I read this document: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Search+Engine+Optimization  and this:(https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/User+Interface+Configuration#UserInterfaceConfiguration-ServerSideRendering(SSR)Settings)  completely and checked all the settings. Everything is correct. However, SSR is disabled and this is the main problem for our items to be indexed. I don't know where I went wrong and I need to fix it.

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[habibi]

It has this error that I didn't send in the previous message:

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM DSpace Technical Support <dspac...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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[DSpace Technical Support]

Hi,

If SSR is disabled, then Google Scholar will be unable to index your site.  To enable SSR, see this section of the Search Engine Optimization docs: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Search+Engine+Optimization#SearchEngineOptimization-Ensuretheuserinterfaceisusingserver-siderendering

Keep in mind you MUST start the frontend using either "yarn start" or "yarn run serve:ssr" for SSR to start up properly.  If you are starting the User Interface in development mode, then SSR will never start.

Tim

[habibi]

Thanks Tim

I also run it with "yarn start", but SSR is still disabled. I have read the relevant documentation, but the problem persists. Could this problem be related to SSL settings? Yarn Start errors are attached.

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[DSpace Technical Support]

Are you able to access your site (browse, search, etc) when you start the User Interface?  Are you able to login to your site at all?

If you cannot even access the site, then the problem is *not* SSR.  The problem is that your site is either not installed properly or not configured properly.  The logs you shared look *very odd* to me, as they seem to reference "wiki.lyrasis.org" over and over again, which doesn't make sense as that's not even referenced in the DSpace code itself.  It makes me wonder if somehow you are wrongly referencing wiki.lyrasis.org in your configuration. But, I'm honestly not sure because the errors don't make sense to me.

I'm starting to suspect you may have a general configuration error, and if you fix that issue then SSR may also begin to work.  I'd recommend using the troubleshooting guide and look *much closer* at your User Interface configuration and Backend configuration...make sure also that your backend is not logging errors.   

Here's the troubleshooting guide: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Troubleshoot+an+error#Troubleshootanerror-DSpace7.x(orabove)

Tim

[habibi]

Hi Tim
My Dspace is working fine (https://dspace.tbzmed.ac.ir) and the only problem right now is that it is not fully indexed in Google Scholar (all items are indexed in Google Scholar as  "citation" type ), thank you very much for your guidance, I will try to investigate further.

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