Absolute or Relative URLs in Google

JohnMU clarifies the benefits of using absolute and relative URLs.

Absolute URLs:
+ help keep the links pointing to your content if someone were to copy
it (*)
+ help keep the links pointing to your domain name if you cannot
select a canonical (can’t do 301 redirects)
+ help make sure that you’re pointing to the right URL even if you
move things around (say for stylesheets or graphics)

- cannot be tested on a staging / testing server (eg locally) (unless
you insert the links dynamically)
- makes it hard to move content (unless the links are inserted
dynamically)

Relative URLs:
+ make it easy to move content around
+ make it easy to test locally and on a staging server

- are easy to break if linking to content that isn’t moved as well
(stylesheet, graphics, etc)
- an evil scraper would have less work (*)

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Google Groups showing PageRank

Google groups is now showing PageRank^TM and is already ranking with the best of SEO forums in organic search, this is algorithmic reputation management at its finest!

Someone asks if Google is a global monopoly? well why not do a search in Google to find out?

My favorite Google Group; Crawling, indexing, and ranking now has a PR6, let the pagerank flow…

Old Prediction:
Google Groups appearing in organic serps