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
Regarding weblinks I am interpreting your description a few ways..
When you say relative and absolute, do you mean relative as in “../main/blah.htm”
or “/main/blah.htm”
And absolute as in “/main/blah.htm” or “domain.com/main/blah.htm”
I am thinking you mean relative “/main/blah.htm” and absolute as “domain.com/main/blah.htm” but I have a feeling I may be wrong..
Just in case this may make a difference to the answer from the SEO guys.
Another question (for someone who isn’t as savvy on SE bots) – do the search engines crawl your raw files or do they crawl the source code? Coz theoretically, if they are crawling the source code and not your raw files it shouldn’t make a difference because they would see the same regardless. JMO.
Renee
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