Hi I am just wondering if I should link to all my pages within my such as: www.site.com/page.html for all the pages, rather than page.html would this help as i read an article which says 'Because Google indexes URLs, not pages. And though those URLS point to the same page, Google will treat them as unique addresses in the Interweb.'
Read this as if it was published by Pravda: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/infrastructure-status-january-2007/ Summary: Good Inbound links, Good Unique Content [but remember computers are doing this so what it means to be good unique compelling content might be hard to determine. My database programming background makes me say good compelling content means unique pictures, words, lots of words, and having the right words about what G considers the focus of a site.] If your page.html is also the directory index, then you should use the google webmasters site to tell them which of those two is the page you want indexed. Matt
Your link structure won't matter as the web browser will parse the www.yoursite.com to the front of the link regardless....
One way to emliminate the doubt here is to build a site map with all your pages in it and then submit that to Google. Bruce
It's better to use the www.siteurl.com/page.htm, at least it will help you during designing. Whether it's SEO friendly I'm not sure, but from own experience of web design, I prefer the absolute url. Also save some most popular pages, and you will see that all are using like www.siteurl.com/page.htm
I totally misunderstood your question, and thought you were talking about the Google Supplemental problem, which relates to links. Anyhow, I prefer to code according to the http spec (see http request) , which says all urls are absolute, so I would code as http://www.site.com/page.htm. The browsers will to a nice job of fixing the href and put your site there if you do a relative link, but they are really correcting the html to conform with the http rules. BTW: the same is true for these two links: http://www.site.com http://www.site.com/ The latter is the proper form, and the former is corrected by the web browser before submission to the server. Watch your url in the nav bar, and look at the access logs to see it happening. As for as SEO goes, I believe this also helps because if you just look at the raw html stripped of tags the site will be in there too.