Eric_Lander - 1:51 pm on Jan 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

I'm going out on a limb here to add or haze things up a degree or two.

In my experiences, it is easier to create sites with relative links - and let the SE's figure it out.

Does that yield the best results? Not necessarily. I am with Brett in believing that the SE's spiders, bots and crawlers can understand where the link goes without any issues.

However, looking at engines like Google - who index AND cache pages for their users - perhaps they prefer absolute links over relative links, as it make the archiving of pages easier.

Again, just a theory in the most undeveloped sense.

Thanks,
~ Eric