Which linking is better for SEO

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Originally Posted by Greenguy

I was always told that it was bad because it forces the browser to leave the server, look up the domain & then come back to the server, causing speed issues & a general waste of time.

Most browser/os/routers/modems have a dns cache today, this means they lookup the ip address of the domainname ones and than save the ip / domainname combination in a cache, this cache is than used for further lookups.

You can clear your cache by doing a "ipconfig /flushdns".

Personally i use relative links whenever i can, it makes moving a site to another domainname (or even another directory) much easier. For example a freesite can be moved without any changes to another domainname.