Linking strategy - absolute vs relative

[Carrym]

Hi all,

Do search engines know the difference between absolute and relative links?

From what I understand, inbound links have the potential to increase your search engine ranking. What about internal (relative) links within your own website, for example Wikipedia has a gazillion relative links between their articles. Does this help Wikipedia get ranked higher?


Thanks in advance!

[Void]

Yes, search engines do know the difference between these types of links. I think that you will even be penalized by the larger ones (google).

[xtraze]

But having a good link structure can save your site.
For example.

Home page must link to all pages if possible, (or at least to all sections) But total links in a page must be below 100.

Its somewhat difficult to tell like this mate, Must look through the website in order to say.

Simply, There are some ways to make quality inbound links.

[El_Fantastico]

Originally Posted by xtraze

But having a good link structure can save your site.
For example.

Home page must link to all pages if possible, (or at least to all sections) But total links in a page must be below 100.

Its somewhat difficult to tell like this mate, Must look through the website in order to say.

Simply, There are some ways to make quality inbound links.

That is quite confusing. So basically its good to have alot of links to all of your pages, but too many is bad? When you say it must be under 100, does that mean total links or just individual links to certain pages.

What I mean is, if I have my homepage with a link to Page A in the navigation. Then, in a paragraph on the homepage, I also have a link to Page A. Do those both count against my total links or does it just count it once?

[xtraze]

Maybe the <a tags are counted.
And most probably they will be counted as 2.

But wont help much.


Remember this.

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If page A link to Page B
Try not to link Page B to Page A.

Try to understand.

[sankarj]

Search engines do know the difference between absolute and relative links. Internal links do not raise your rank. Otherwise, we would have people putting invisible links (which search engines also recognize) in order to increase your pagerank. If you have inbound links from "bad" sites, your pagerank will go down as well.

[Gracia]

Let’s begin with the basics first, we need to understand what links are. There are two types of links that are into use, absolute and relative links. An Absolute link is used to define specific locations of s webpage and a relative link is used for specifying a location of a webpage within a major directory.

Example of an absolute link: < a xhref="http://www.eukhost.com/support/" mce_href="http://www.eukhost.com/support/" >Webhosting Support Information< /a>

Example of an relative link: < a xhref="../support" mce_href="../support" >Webhosting Support Information< /a>

*** Advisable to use absolute link

[DevilsCharm]

What is xhref? I've only heard of regular, fine, nice href. Sweet, sweet href.

[xtraze]

Yeah, can you give us a quick tutorial on that code mate,
I only use them as

<a href=.........></a>

[Kaabi]

That's interesting about absolute and relative, as I'd never heard those terms before. Wikipedia does have an incredible internal linking structure.