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Absolute Links vs. Relative Links – SEO Value

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The debate between absolute links and relative links continues to live on in the SEO world. The individual significance of each has been contested, but it is widely regarded that absolute links provide better SEO value on the whole than relative links.Absolute and Relative Paths, SEO , digital marketing, search engine optimization

Many believe that absolute links have less potential for getting messed up when search engines index your page. It shouldn’t really make a difference, but many conclude that this is reason enough.

Furthermore, content scrapers and RSS services may ‘repurpose’ your content legitimately (or not). In either case, shouldn’t a proper back-link  attributed to your site? This situation favors absolute links. Although this is a minor argument, it’s still worth considering.

Absolute addresses

An absolute address will necessarily include the protocol used ( http ), the name of the domain (DNS or IP), the path to  followed and the name of the file referred to (in the given example it is the intro.html file found in the html directory ). If the home page of a site  called (that is, an address of the form www.numesite.com ), the name of the home page can be omitted, but only after you have checked whether the server is set to automatically load this page. Absolute addresses are used especially when referring to resources that are not located on the same site as the document in which such a link is placed. This does not mean that their use is prohibited in other cases.

A URL address (either absolute or relative) must not contain any empty space or signs such as pound sign (#) or other signs that have a reserved function in a URL address. Rendering of such characters is done using escape codes .

In order to avoid unpleasantness, it is good that both the names of the saved files and the writing of the URL addresses should be done with lowercase letters.

Document Located 

Relative URL addresses can only be used if the files being called are found in the same location as the files from which the call is made. To put it more clearly, they must be found on the same site, that is, the base URL is the same (by the base URL, understanding the expression www.numesite.com ). Relative URLs are written in relation to the position of the document from which the call is made (which contains the link). This is taken as a reference point when we write a relative address. The method of calling the files is similar to the one used in the MS-DOS operating system. To see how it works in MS-DOS, I will give a concrete example.

Let’s take the case of the mscdex.exe file located in the subdirectory COMMAND from the WINDOWS directory. If we switch to MS-DOS Prompt mode. At the prompter we will have to write the following expression to be able to call the mscdex.exe file.

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