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Internal Link Format

by Austin.W
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Hi All,

I have never given this much thought until today. I found a new niche and decided to build the site with HTML instead of going down the route of Wordpress, etc.. (Just trying to look a little different from the crowd)

Anyhow, SEO time on the site and I am building Internal links.
My question is what is the best format for these:-

http://www.mynichesite.com/whichformat.html
or
/whichformat.html

Thanks
#format #internal #link
  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Both of those will appear identical to the search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Fletcher
    You're better off having the /whichformat.html format without the full URL. Google spiders are more likely to follow/index internal links.

    That said there is no real difference since the spiders are bound to be smart enough to look at the site name and name in the link and figure out they are the same.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stefan Vee
    There is a great difference (but not for the search engines)
    Thieves won't steal or mirror your content if you set up your links with the full domain-path
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    • Profile picture of the author nick1123
      Originally Posted by Stefan Vee View Post

      There is a great difference (but not for the search engines)
      Thieves won't steal or mirror your content if you set up your links with the full domain-path
      This is true if you have a site with lots of pages.

      If you have a single page website it's easy for a fee to use the find replace function and replace your domain with their own.

      As far as search engines are concerned I don't think it really matters.
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  • Profile picture of the author Austin.W
    Thanks everyone, I have gone with the full url excluded as it seems to be the common answer.

    THANKS
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