Hi friends, Have started working on websites which are existing from a long time and they have this kind of inside linking-../filename.html or../imagename.jpg, Does crawler ignore this kind of HTML coding? As per my knowledge the HTML tags should be www.sitename.com/filename.html instead of ../, Please guide me if I am wrong. As I prefer to mark site route instead of document in (properties toolbar) dreamweaver, while adding any link to any text or Image. In simple way I would like to ask you that what should our approach while linking. Regards
Always use the absolute url as this avoids any problems. Using /filename.html can work fine in most cases but can cause real problems for search engines.
Can you elaborate on this please ... i seen many sites with just / and no problems with SE i am really interested in this also
I was looking at a site the other day (a directory run by a member of this forum) where instead of linking to the homepage from each page on the site there was a link like <a href="/">Home</a> This meant that google thought the site had 2 homepages and was giving each page a different PR. Google has big problems with urls for instance domain.com/index.htm can have different PR to domain.com and www.domain.com can have different as well. Also domain.com/directory is classed as a different page to domain.com/directory/ Using absolute urls is a really easy way to solve all these problems with no drawbacks (except for a bit more typing).