bumpski - 10:39 am on Jun 10, 2006 (gmt 0)

If you want to be fully indexed at least have a sitemap page, (an html page) linked to from your home page, with full path URL's (absolute). http://www.example.com/yourpage.htm versus /yourpage.htm.

Historically with Google if you did not have absolute links somewhere on your site there would be more times that your site is not fully indexed.

My sites have a mix of absolute and relative (which many think is a no-no). A set of absolute links to your own pages in a sitemap.htm page will at least give you "backlinks" to your own site. In the past this was probably an SEO trick! I do have 301 redirects for non-WWW to WWW.

Then there is sitemap.xml and Google sitemaps to consider.