Absolute vs relative path SEO?

I was wondering if now with in 2010 and also with all those algo changes...if it matters what type of internal linking to you use...absolute or relative? I'm remaking an old site (platform and design) and I was wondering if it's ok to let the internal links "/page.php" or to go full url "http://www.site.com/page.php"

any advice would be great

 

I advice to you and i'm using relative path on all my sites.

 

and I'm using the absolute path

 

I use absolute paths for all of my links, always have.

 

whichever you use, search engines will see it as a whole link anyways. or even if you click on the link to look for the destination, you will see the full path so it doesn;t really matter.

 

IMO always avoid using folder relative pages in links like "filename.html", "./filename.html", or "../filename.html". MOST of the times the search engines don't have problems with it... but sometimes these relative links can cause issues. Using relative paths also make it difficult to copy/paste code into webpages in other parts of your site since the relative paths assume you're in a particular directory or at least at a particular level in the directory structure.

I always use absolute or root relative links (those showing the full path from the root of your web... ie. starting with '/' like /folder/subfolder/pagename.html). I prefer to use absolute filenames because they make it a little more difficult for others to scrape your site and republish it under another domain.

 

absolute always. For alot of reasons not mentioned here. Its been proven to be better seo wise