hello,
i have a question about internal linking
is it better to use your domain name in the link instead of relative paths?
eg.
<a href="http://www.yourdomai...utus.php">About Us</a>
instead of
<a href="aboutus.php">About Us</a> or <a href="/aboutus.php">About Us</a>
Thanks for your help!
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Internal Linking Question
Started by
RobS
, Jan 21 2007 10:08 PM
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Posted 21 January 2007 - 10:13 PM
It doesn't matter as long as the link gets you to the correct page.
The engines, like browsers, normalize the link information in <a href> tags. So to them all of them are the same thing.
The engines, like browsers, normalize the link information in <a href> tags. So to them all of them are the same thing.
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Posted 10 February 2007 - 03:15 AM
However, they do see things like:
<a href="http://www.domain.com</a>
<a href="http://www.domain.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.domain.co...m/index.php</a>
as different and it is a good idea to pick one and stick to it.
<a href="http://www.domain.com</a>
<a href="http://www.domain.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.domain.co...m/index.php</a>
as different and it is a good idea to pick one and stick to it.
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Posted 10 February 2007 - 10:03 AM
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I believe they see those as the same. The / is always automatically appended from my understanding.
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Posted 10 February 2007 - 10:09 AM
Most servers append it automatically Jill. Not all do unfortunately.
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Posted 10 February 2007 - 10:21 AM
It's an obscure thing but fairly easy to avoid... Kind of like making sure your non-www 301 redirects to www or vice versa.
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Posted 10 February 2007 - 10:57 AM
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Kind of like making sure your non-www 301 redirects to www or vice versa.
See that's where I disagree. That one can be important, but the trailing slash one? Nah...I doubt it.
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 05:32 AM
QUOTE(Randy @ Jan 21 2007, 11:13 PM) 
It doesn't matter as long as the link gets you to the correct page.
The engines, like browsers, normalize the link information in <a href> tags. So to them all of them are the same thing.
The engines, like browsers, normalize the link information in <a href> tags. So to them all of them are the same thing.
This is contrary to what I have understood. Each link with a fully qualified URL (i.e., www.domain.com/filename.xxx) counts as a link to the site. A link as filename.xxx does not count as fully as a domain included link to the site. Our belief has been that the more links to the domain the better (albeit a small plus).
Are you sure about the engines "normalizing" the link? Where did you get that information?
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Posted 22 March 2007 - 07:51 AM
Been the way of The Web forever BK.
Look at it another way...
If the engines didn't normalize the links (basically adding the www.domain.com/ part) there would be lots and lots of sites out there where none of the interior pages ever got spidered. Including many of my own sites since I often use root referential links instead of hard codng them.
They all got/get spidered just fine. Which means the engines have to be normalizing the addresses.
Look at it another way...
If the engines didn't normalize the links (basically adding the www.domain.com/ part) there would be lots and lots of sites out there where none of the interior pages ever got spidered. Including many of my own sites since I often use root referential links instead of hard codng them.
They all got/get spidered just fine. Which means the engines have to be normalizing the addresses.
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