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Old July 13th, 2005, 01:47 PM
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Reletive for Absolute links? which is best?
i am wondering which ones spiders will or will not follow when they go to my site...

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/file.php">

or

<a href="/file.php">


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I too am curious about this...
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Old July 14th, 2005, 11:20 AM
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They should follow both, but I would be inclined not to use a FQDN for internal links.
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Relative links are shorter (less HTML) and make it easier to move content to a new site if you need to.

As far as search engines are concerned they won't differentiate between absolute or relative links.
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As far as search engines are concerned they won't differentiate between absolute or relative links.


Just thought I'd bump this topic rather than start a new thread of my own. I understand the benefit of including keywords/phrases within link anchor text. However for internal links (ie. links to pages within my own site) with keyword rich link anchor text is there no benefit of using absolute links over relative links?

Would using absolute links increase that page's link popularity more so than using relative links?
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There should be no difference, but keep in mind that it all depends on how the bot is written, and that could be different for different search engines. In theory, in my head, it makes no sense for there to be any difference.
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They should follow both, but I would be inclined not to use a FQDN for internal links.


Thanks for the quick reply. By the way, excuse my ignorance but what's a FQDN?
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The terms "relative" and "absolute" are usually used incorrectly in reference to href= values. Most people confuse and/or intermix "abosulte" and "FQDN":

href="foo.html" » relative
href="../foo.html" » relative
href="/foo.html" » absolute
href="http://domain.com/foo.html" » FQDN

This differs from the meaning of those terms in reference to filesystem locations, in which case FQDN does not apply.
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