Absolute and relative paths for internal links
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I have been looking into absolute and relative paths for internal links, what is better for SEO? Thanks
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Hi Markus,
Absolute links leave less room for confusion and mistakes when it comes to crawling. Google recommends using absolute links here:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35156
Keep in mind, this recommendation has nothing to do with your rankings. When properly configured, relative links are as effective as absolute links. There is just a higher risk that a relative link is malformed and broken.
On the other hand, relative links are extremely convenient when you want to change domain name. With absolute links, you would have a lot of search and replace. Something to keep in mind when making a decision.
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Hi,
It shouldn't make a difference. Google will crawl either link and follow them (unless instructred otherwise).
The issues start to come if you want to launch multiple versions of your site (ie different country etc) - you could have issues but this has little to do with SEO, more a technical thing.
This probably doesn't help you much sorry.
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