Internal links : Absolute or Relative?

Which one is best?

[delsartm]

Hello!

I am new here but I enjoy this forum a lot, it is great!

I have a question (which may be old but I haven't read anything on the topic).

When you create internal links, which one is prefereable for Google : absolute (meaning you re-write the whole url) or relative (only write the name of the target page - perhaps with the ../dir1/dir2/ -)?

Or perhaps it makes no difference?

Thanks in advance for your replies!

[coosblues]

It's most always best to use the absolute link vs the relative link. Much more spider friendly I suspect.

[rogerdp]

Any spider which doesn't use relative URLs will quickly die.

It shouldn't matter.

[XtendScott]

I use absolute to home page (http://www.mysite.com) to lessen the likely hood of index page seen as seperate page from www.mysite.com.

Usually doesn't matter if it is .htm or .html file but I have seen some issues with .php, .asp or .cfm.(non standard extensions)

other internal links are reletive.