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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 (*)
+ More
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June 7th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Hi Aaron,
For custom error pages absolute URLs are a good idea, because relative URLs may not always work in this case.
June 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I randomely found out on google about this nice software you can use to get people find you and be attracted to your headlines in search engines. I think it was called glyphius…
You pretty much type a headline and it gives you a score. You keep editing it and changing few words until the score gets higher and higher and i guess next thing you know, you have a catchy headline ;) I think I’ll try it to advertise my coming up business.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Wouldnt that be like having lots and lots of outbound links tho?
September 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Hey nice post, I’ve been looking all around your site and I really enjoy your tips. I’m currently involved in doing a SEO experiment myself and within the next month I’ll be trying your tips and seeing how well they work out…you can monitor the experiment at my site
abalastow-compendium [dot] com …