Help with Implications of Library's place in University DNS

[<your name> Michael Yunkin]

Web technologies in libraries <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU> wrote on 09/19/2012
08:22:35 AM:

> From: "Isidro F. Aguillo" <isidro.aguillo at CCHS.CSIC.ES>
> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Date: 09/19/2012 08:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Help with Implications of Library's place in
> University DNS
> Sent by: Web technologies in libraries <WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
>
> Talking about friendly URLs, why are many libraries using "lib"
> instead of "library" in the URL?. There is no real advantage on this
> that fact penalizes in search engines rank as end-users are asking
> for "library", not lib.

And yet when I search for any of these places they are the first result in
Google.

There are SEO considerations in higher ed (particularly for lower-level
pages); URLs aren't one of them.

-Michael Yunkin
Web Content Manager/Usability Specialist
UNLV Libraries
Las Vegas, NV

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