Absolute and Relative Links

[WobMaster]

I have heard that! links in this type:

<a href="/url.php">link text</a>

Does not crawl by GoogleBOT! so is it right?

if right then which type i have to use?

[SethCall]

The link that you are using as an example is a relative link, i.e., it is understood that you could rewrite the link as [current_directory]/link.php.

So, if what you say is true (I have no idea if it is or isn't), then you should take the effort to make the link complete, i.e., make it unambiguous.

So, something like <a href="http://yourDomain.com/link.php">link text </a> would be more appropriate.

[percentages]

>so is it right?

No it is not.

But absolute links are probably preferrable as who is to say what might happen in the future and who is to say what might happen with new and upcoming SE's :)

[bignet]

good search engines have no problem crawling relative links

not even the bad ones imho

[glengara]

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[g1smd]

>> >> <a href="/url.php">link text</a> << <<

>> The link that you are using as an example is a relative link, <<

Umm, no it is not.

That is an absolute URL counting from the web root.

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Examples:

/the/absolute/path/from/root/to/the/file.html

a/relative/path/from/current/location/to/file.html

Absolute begins with / or the domain name in full.

Relative begins with just a directory name or filename or starts with ./ or ../ etc.