Essential networking tips for young scholars: - Google scholar page - Personal, clean website. Quick links to: papers, CV, biography, code - get a name/affiliation Twitter account even if you only use it to post your latest papers.
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It's not that easy either of course, but given Google weights http://ac.uk edu and so on domains by association our sites can rank moderately highly if not awfully long freebie URLs and/or subdomains.
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*weights =weights highly.

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Also just to be clear I agree with both of your advice and experiences. They match how I understand SEO and I think it's easy to play the system given we have access to our names and URLs appearing on University websites.
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I have the same thoughts as
@o_guest - actually my own website doesn't rank first now (but 5th behind uni and Twitter), but I've moved hosts in a hurry so my name is not actually properly featured in the name of the Wordpress website so that might be it -
Also it's WordPress so that's probably a bit hit and miss.
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I do rank first for some queries related to blog posts (I also have a plugin which helps with that) but I've never actually looked at my home page that way :D
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If people can Google you and find you even if not on your domain, that's good enough.
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I have self-hosted Wordpress, but yes agree
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