Best linking formats?

[Yamaha_R1]

I own several sites.

On most of my sites, the pages are in one directory.

So my links just reference 'somepage.php' instead of 'http://www.mysite.com/sompage.php'.

It all seems to work fine. Our tutorial site has 60+ pages, and google finds them all.

But when I run the pages through SEW's spider simulator, it interperets them as 'http://somepage.php' and the links don't work. My real fear is other engines do the same.

Is it important (mostly for google) to have the FULL path in EVERY link on your site? This seems inneficient as well.

And why would SEW's spider interperate them this way?

Sometimes the google bot has visited, and indexes all the new content on the front page, but NOTHING else inside. Its hit and miss!

Thanks for any advice in advance.

[sugarrae]

Do a search on google for relative (the way you do it) vs. absolute (putting the full path) linking with a site:webmasterworld.com in the query and you'll find numerous topics dicussing this.