using ../ as a link

any negative effects?

[beyondtragedy]

I'm just curious if using "../" as a href in order to load the page on the previous directory will have a negative effect on any search engine bots logging my website. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[jamesa]

I don't think any bot will have a problem with that, beyondtragedy.

[vaib]

Ok this is what i did a few weeks ago .....

I thought that i am very smart to fool S.E.s LOL so i made 7 new pages ( which i thought i will use as directory pages once they get PR ) and linked those pages from every page of the site with "......." (7 dots) . Then i waited for them to be indexed . After 20-25 days what i noticed was absolutely shocking ......

My site was almost out of index on google only one fourth of the total pages remained. I was in a state of shock but i knew that it was my over smartness in trying to fool S.Es which has lead to this .

I immidiately removed those links ( seven dots ) form the whole site and in the next 10 days my site was reindexed completely :)

But P.R. Updated during these 10 days so initially i had no pr on these pages but when they got indexed their pr also returned .

So in short DONT TRY TO FOOL THE SEARCH ENGINES

Be natural in your approach

One more thing my site was doing well in Yahoo and MSN no affect of the "....... links " on them

[guitaristinus]

Absolute links are better. Two reasons quickly come to mind, though I'm sure there are others. 1) Someone can follow link from cache and 2) a page copied will have link back to original site.

No problem with spider following relative links.