use of http://example.com/folder VS /folder in template

[bluetoothache]

hi,

this is my first post here in,

i am doing a template for a very large site of mine, all in static html. i am thinking ahead of making a single general template for all the pages under the domain, on the navigation bar is there a significance if i make the hyperlinks as [example.com...] versus /folder what is the effect of that on search engines?

thanks in advance.

bluetoothache :)

[AjiNIMC]

domain.com/xyz.html is more effective that domain.com/folder/xyz.com

Aji

[AjiNIMC]

sorry made a slight mistake in hurry

domain.com/xyz.html is more effective that domain.com/folder/xyz.html(not com)

Aji

[bluetoothache]

thanks for the reply.

sorry if i havent made myself clearer.

what i meant was,

this

<A href="http://example.com/sitemap/>Sitemap</A>

versus

<A href="versus">Sitemap</A>

i will be using the template on various directories. like domain/folder, domain/folder/folder etc. and editing the navigation bars would be a tedious task and i want to know if that would affect the search engine spidering especially google.

thanks.

[bluetoothache]

oops

this.

<A href="http://example.com/sitemap/>Sitemap</A>

versus

<A href="folder/">Sitemap</A>

[HarryM]

The solution I arrived at was to only have folders one level deep. It is just as easy to link between "subfolders" that are actually on the same level as it is to link to actual subfolders. The user and search engines are only aware of the link structure, and the actual file structure is immaterial.

With this system a link of the format <a href="../folder/page.html">blahblah</a> will work anywhere.

My site has about 300 pages and it works fine and I have no problems with search engines, although it might not work as well with very large sites.

[shasan]

Search engines treat absolute and relative paths in hrefs the same way.

It doesn't matter to the SE which you use, as long as it can get to the link.

[bluetoothache]

Thanks to AjiNIMC, HarryM and shasan.

i do understand now.

thanks for all your inputs :)

your help is very much appreciated

bluetoothache :D

[shasan]

btw, Welcome to Webmasterworld bluetoothache!

[AjiNIMC]

sorry i misunderstood, I agree with shasan,It doesn't matter to the SE which you use, as long as it can get to the link.

Welcome to ww.

Aji