St0n3y
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Posted: 2003-Aug-28 21:13
I know this has been talked about in the past but I was wondering if there were any new thoughts on the issue. In regards to SEO, is relative better than absolute linking, or visa versa, or does it even matter?
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bhartzer
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Posted: 2003-Aug-28 21:42
This has come up before, and the general consensus is that it doesn't really matter. Personally, though, I always put the full url in links, though.
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HAJITH
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Posted: 2003-Aug-29 05:19
IMHO.If your domain name has keywords then absolute URLS are better than relative URLS.
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excell
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Joined: Mar 19, 2001
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Posted: 2003-Aug-29 13:33
any grounds for thinking this hajith or experiments?
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HAJITH
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Posted: 2003-Aug-29 13:49
If your domain name has keyphrase and if we use absolute URL's then there are more chances of incorporating your keyphrase in the copy. It also goes un noticable by the visitors, and even search engines wont treat this as a spam.
So it is useful in raising your keyword density which in turn is helpful in rankings.
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excell
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Posted: 2003-Aug-29 16:31
I don't believe that SE reads the link a href as part of the copy, can you tell me for sure otherwise, anyone else on this?
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St0n3y
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Posted: 2003-Aug-29 18:20
excell, wasn't that the purpose in creating keyword-friendly page names? I'm just asking because I remember that being a big deal some time back, to create page names that utilize your keywords so the searc engine gives a relevance boost.
But that still doens't apply to reletive v. absolute, as page names are in the link with either.
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excell
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Posted: 2003-Aug-29 19:03
I think way back yahoo when they served the directory results the URL was relevant...those days are long gone... these days, I think it is more the anchor text that may be relevant rather than the a href itself or the URL on most engines.
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Ron Carnell
Joined: May 15, 2001
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Posted: 2003-Aug-30 02:11
In the specific case of Google, it probably won't matter in the least whether you use relative or absolute link references.
Accordingly to the original article, "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," in section 4.1 on the Google Architecture:
"The URLresolver reads the anchors file and converts relative URLs into absolute URLs and in turn into docIDs." (emphasis added)
So at least in this particular worldview, Einstein was wrong. Nothing is relative. 
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unreviewed
Joined: Dec 07, 2000
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Posted: 2003-Aug-30 02:40
lol, Ron nailed it, and lets face it, working on a web site off line with absolute url's isn't very productive. In fact it just won't work, and as Ron pointed out, relative addresses will be converted to request the page from the server.
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St0n3y
Joined: May 01, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Aug-30 03:15
Thanks everybody for your thoughts. I use both relateive and absolute depending on the circumstances. Specificall because I have multiple URLs that resolve to the same site, all of my navigation is absolute, so if the viewer starts on www.xyz.com, the first click they are brought to the URL I want them to be on and they page they want to be on.
Just glad to know that it does not make a differece.
One more thing I want to be clear on. keywords in page names (i.e. www.xyz.com/keyword-keyword.html) no longer makes a lick of difference?
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chrisridings
Joined: Feb 01, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Aug-30 10:13
One thing to keep in mind is that if you site is available on the domain and www subdomain (e.g. with www and without), then there can be a slight advantage to using absolute urls if people start linking to each version (with www and without).
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JQ
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Posted: 2003-Aug-30 19:30
lets face it, working on a web site off line with absolute url's isn't very productive.
Yeppers on that! You have to upload everything to be able to test/proof. Find a mistake, fix, reupload... lather, rinse, repeat...
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yellowwing
Joined: May 21, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Aug-30 19:57
www.xyz.com/keyword-keyword.html - Even if the SEs are not giving any points to this technique, it may help in click through rates. If the users see the keywords in the page name also, they may think is it more relevant.
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St0n3y
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Posted: 2003-Aug-31 03:44
Good point Yellowwing.
Yeppers on that! You have to upload everything to be able to test/proof. Find a mistake, fix, reupload... lather, rinse, repeat...
This is the single most reason why I continue to use FP. I know its not the best program for coding but I make my changes live. I save and poof! its there.
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