Full url or local directory?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Silver89, Apr 21, 2010.

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    Lately I've been monitoring a few sites and they seem to use full domains within their dofollow navigation links such as:

    <a href="http://domain.com/nav.html">
    HTML:
    instead of

    <a href="/nav.html">
    HTML:
    Do the full urls help with passing weighting for the anchor to that page?
     
    Silver89, Apr 21, 2010 IP
  2. breadnbutter

    breadnbutter Guest

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    That is a very good question. A subtle but important question.

    I believe Google's robot would follow the URL and find its destination, so I am 99% sure it would pass the full page rank to the destination page.

    Someone back me up on this?
     
    breadnbutter, Apr 21, 2010 IP
  3. bogs

    bogs Active Member

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    well it also part of on page optimization.. both works but the shorter one means short crawling for bots... which makes it more SE friendly..
     
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    asghar.paracha Well-Known Member

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    But for the better results I like to use full URLs :)
     
    asghar.paracha, Apr 22, 2010 IP
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    I think it will be better if you use full URL's...
    I'm agree with asghar here....
     
    ragenk, Apr 23, 2010 IP