It’s a good question, I’m not sure about the seo implications, it seems a bit weird that a search engine would care as long as they can find the page but I have noticed that some spiders seem to get confused with relative links so I have changed all mine to absolute just to be on the safe side. Basically I was getting a lot of 404 errors in my weblog so figured better safe than sorry.
@harold 207419 wrote:
I have been reading about the SEO influence of the choice between absolute and relative urls for internal linking.
Some say it does not make a difference and that search engines (also Google) don’t care if you use absolute or relative urls. Others say that it does make a difference and that it is better to use absolute urls.
My obvious question is now whether it does matter or not.
On a certain website with a Joomla backend, I’m having trouble implementing absolute urls. That is why I want to know if I can just as well use relative urls or that I should find a solution which would allow me to implement absolute urls.
Many thanks