Which linking is better for SEO

Maj. Stress · 2005-09-28, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roni20

Hi

On my index page on doamin, i have little hub with links to my freesites. Which linking way is better

Code:

<a href=http://www.domain.com/freesites/dir/>description</a>

or

Code:

<a href=freesites/dir/>description</a>

Or maybe it doesn't matter ?

Regards
Roni

Roni,
You don't say what you are trying to accomplish. Better for what? If you are trying to achieve better page rank (webrank, etc) absolute linking is the way to go. Think in the terms of pages and not sites. By not using absolute linking, you will split up your page rank between http://www.yourdomain.com/ and http://yourdomain.com/. Search engines can and do see the same page as two different urls. It it depends on how YOU link them all together.

Bill · 2005-09-28, 02:52 AM

I use a combination of both types of links, absolute and relative.

I think they each have their advantages.

The only thing I try to be fussy about is being as consistent as possible in the format of the links. For me this means always including the www. in absolute links, and always adding the trailing slash to all links.

The old arguments about server performance still have some merit, but servers are a lot faster nowadays than they were when those conventions were first started, and I tend to think they aren't as critical nowadays.

But, it's pretty clear that consistency in link format, to avoid duplicate penalties and pages ending up needlessly in the supplemental results, is a discipline that results in more dollars in the pocket.

Linkster · 2005-10-02, 10:08 PM

Having had my site split due to relative links because I also owned the .net and .org versions and Google with its latest "problems" determining canonical urls - I have removed all relative links and gone completely to absolute links - and it has helped my rankings in Google considerably - I believe there are at least 3 other linklist owners here that have recently done the same thing due to being dropped completely out of Googles pages for the exact same reason

abcdwebkate · 2005-10-12, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Linkster

Having had my site split due to relative links because I also owned the .net and .org versions and Google with its latest "problems" determining canonical urls - I have removed all relative links and gone completely to absolute links - and it has helped my rankings in Google considerably - I believe there are at least 3 other linklist owners here that have recently done the same thing due to being dropped completely out of Googles pages for the exact same reason

I've had great results with absolute links. Absolute links let individual pages on your site stand alone. Since it is hard to move absolute urls, the content is less likely to be a duplicate.

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