Internal linking and SEO

Hello

Can anyone help me. I have for example www.mysite.com and there is a forum at http://www.mysite.com/forum

How is better to link to that forum through my internal pages?
To add a link to "/forum" OR to "/forum/" (with a slesh "/" at the end)? Or this does not matter regarding the seo?

However for example If a add a link to forum like "/forum" a slesh is automatically added in browser.

Thanks.

 

Where is no big difference, bu i personally use /forum/ ,because of the slash browser adds, so i dont have to worry of google seeing a difference.

 

There is absolutely no difference

 

there is no difference but if you have a menu link or a footer link pointing towoards your forum make sure you use the anchor text of the search term you would like to be found under on Google, eg.,:

<a href-"http://www.mysite.com/forum">My Site Forum</a>

run this with css or with your CMS so every page is pointing to this site using this anchor text and then optimize the forums site (h1, title, first word in your paragraph, meta descriptions, etc.,)

good luck mate!

Cheers,

Ben Joven

 

it is however, called a "slash"

 

IMHO, I would suggest using "/forum/" becasue of browser. But I don't think there is a difference from a SEO point of view.

 

if you are using CMS use slash to avoid problems that simple