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48. Where multiple publications are on a single domain or subdomain, plan the structure of URLs so that the scope of each publication is easily identified via its URL path.

planning publishing platforms web-based publications

Where there are multiple publications on the same domain or subdomain, and each one spans multiple pages, using a consistent and hierarchical naming convention in the URL path helps web harvesting tools identify its scope. For example, if the publication content is organized in these directories: example.org/book-slug/text, example.org/book-slug/resources, a crawler can be set to generate an archive of the resources within the “book-slug” directory.