Internal links

direct or to root

[mack]

I was just thinking and decided I wasn't going to work this out on my own... so over to the experts.

When you are using links (within a site) do you use the format of "/page" or "http://domain.com/page" the reason I was thinking about this was I was thinking, If I was a robot indexing this site and I came across http... links then I would have to go back to the root to "get" the page. Possibly even request robots.txt each time, but if I was just to use /page it would simply link direct. Some of my hand coded pages have been using http... to form the links. Should I change this???

Your opinions please :)

[paynt]

I found a few references for you. This is a great tutorial about links on SEW

Links in HTML documents [searchengineworld.com]

And a tutorial about Relative Addressing vs Absolute [searchengineworld.com]

Plus a few members weigh in with discussion. You can find more through the site search using ‘relative links’ and ‘absolute links’ or linking instead of links.

absolute link [webmasterworld.com]
Spidering Links [webmasterworld.com]
Fully Qualified Hyperlinks [webmasterworld.com]
spiders and relative links [webmasterworld.com]

[mack]

Thanks very much Paynt...

lots of usefull info there.

:)