linking to home using absolute path better?

relative paths like /index not considered as backlinks?

[silverbytes]

I´ve seen sites with many backlinks considered by google that basically are interior pages of same site:

www.mysite.net

backlinks:
www.mysite.net/city1/service
www.mysite.net/city2/service
etc...

They have a high PR.

So I wonder, relative paths like ../index in interior pages are not considered as backlinks?

What if thatsites where linking from
www.mysite.net/city1/service to homepage
like this:

/index?

Is it better to put the entire path [mysite.net?...]
Will that make a difference for Google in order to consider those backlinks?

[wkitty42]

i don't know about search engines but hardcoding can quickly become a nightmare... consider this...

1. my pages contain no reference to www.mysite.com.
2. i can take a backup of my pages and place them on www.example.com with no editing. i only have to ensure that the directory structure is the same.
3. the result is that i can move my pages from one (base) site to another with no editing.

also consider that most (all except badly written clients - search engines, user agents, etc...) know what site they are visiting and since the pages are based on directory structure, know that / is the same as www.mysite.com/

make sense?

[silverbytes]

I know relative paths are firendly, but I´m talking about influence in PR...
Does it helps or not?