What is the difference between relative and absolute backlinks? I've read relative backlinks are better, a bit confused about it. Any help would be appreciated.
Are you sure you aren't getting confused about link structure within a site? relative links are where the link/href/src is given as ..\..\whatever.html absolute are http://mysite.com/myfolder/whatever.html If someone scrapes your site the absolute links will send the user to your site If you move a document the absolute link will still find the content - relative links rely on the site being the same forever.
Most probably you are referring to the links within the same site... This explains well: http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/absolute-vs-relative-pathslinks/
Well, for relative, your server needs to translate it to absolute, and then show it to your visitors browsers. As Google already put page load speed as one of the signal when they rank your site, so I will use absolute URLs to prevent server's translation overhead.
You're saying that you're web-linking your own internal pages? I'm still using the relative paths for internal pages. I don't see the point why if you'd make them absolute for speeding the page loading up...