[My_Donna]

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!

[T2DMan]

Originally Posted by My_Donna

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!

Whether you have an absolute internal link (ie linking with your whole domain name/folder), or a relative internal link they are both the same effect.

Whether a link is going outside, or going inside, the basic rules of Google PR attribution and value of the link text apply.

• depending in the number of links on that page, each page linked to (internal or external) gets a "vote" with the anchor text of that link, and gets PR attributed to it
• some pages on your site will have external inbound links, and so there is additional PR into that page over and above the internal PR distribution on the site. Therefore any links out to other internal pages will get access to good PR for their page.
• you need to decide how you will distribute the Google PR around your site. You decide this by how you internally link.
• rel=nofollows on links will make sure that you are not using up Google PR on pages that don't need it. For instance in forums there are pages like post reply, post thread, register etc that do not need to be found on Google.

So yes, internal links within your site definately helps with SEO of specific pages.

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