Help with Implications of Library's place in University DNS

[Drew, Wilfred E CTR USAF AFMC AFRL/RIOI]

If SEO is handled correctly, it does not matter what the URL is.  If you
watch users, most do not type in URLs to go to sites.  The URL in the format
of library.university.edu  is no longer of such great importance.   This is
especially true when one uses mobile devices.  This whole issue of placement
in DNS is just not as important as it was 10 or 5 years ago.

Bill Drew

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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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