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Do you think this could affect my backward links or my google pagerank?
Thank you in advance and greetings from Greece
Relative links are absolutley, without question, the way to go.
You mean for performance reasons? If so, could you point me to any stats that demonstrate this? I'm sometimes skeptical of conventional wisdom. For example, all over the net they say that using server side includes slows down the server, but in my tests I could barely measure any speed difference at all. I'm wondering if the same is true for relative/absolute links.
The value of that can be more significant than you'd think at first, because dialup users in rural areas are often better prospects to buy things online than urban dwellers with easy access to shopping malls.
Users on fast connections might not notice any difference, but saving a few dozen or a few hundred characters here and there can make a perceptible improvement in the experience your site delivers to users on dialup.
Ah, I was thinking that it somehow caused more traffic or more load on the server with absolute links (server might have to get pinged twice instead of once or something), not how many characters were on the page.
Still, if I had 20 links on a page and used absolute instead of relative that would be an extra 500 characters, which I figure on a 56.6k dialup would take an extra 0.07 seconds. I'm still not sure it matters...
absolute links won't allow you to navigate the site pages if you ever needed to copy the site to removable media and take it with you somewhere offline.
