Thinking about this some more, departmental URLs of the form
dept.univ.ac.uk (or www.dept.univ.ac.uk) have additional management
advantages, as well as being more likely to be indexed (as Danny
Sullivan described) - for example, it becomes easier to manage a
departmental robots.txt file.
Brian
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From: "Andrew Savory" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: Naming conventions of department/faculty urls
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Setchell, Helen wrote:
>
> > I'm not even sure it's worth trying to standardise the addresses,
but with
> > the number of sites growing here at NTU, and our web guidelines and
strategy
> > on the agenda, I thought I'd see if anyone had any advice or
opinions...?
>
> According to Danny Sullivan from SearchEngineWatch, we should all aim
for
> www.dept.uni.ac.uk on the basis that this increases the number of
> "departmental" pages that are indexed by the search engines. It also
lends
> consistency to URLs, whether a department has it's own server or not.
>
> See:
>
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-sep1999/mate
rials/dsullivan/
>
>
> Andrew.
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