Comments on: Absolute or Relative Links?

By: Martyn

Martyn — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:09:47 +0000

Some of you guys seem like you know a lot about linking and stuff, we’re trying to get more relative links to our site Can any of you guys help?

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:50:55 +0000

Ram, here you go.

1. The article in the link is only a reference to what absolute and relative links are. It does not say anything on which one to prefer for SEO. As a matter of fact it’s me who suggested that absolute links are better. Don’t expect that site or the W3C to suggest you which one is better. Hope that’s clear.
2. A case study..point taken.
3. When bookmarking, I’d prefer http://www.thisandthat.com/thisinfo.htm rather than ../thisinfo.htm, so that later when I take a look at my bookmark I know, that the page is from “this” particular site. Many may have different opinion on this, it’s after all a matter of preference.

Thanks for the questions.

By: Ramnath

Ramnath — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:03:36 +0000

Hi Mani and belated happy b’day to you!

In regards to the article above I have a few queries:

1. See more info here.> Saw that and also noted that the article’s source contained only TWO absolute URLs out of .

2. There are more occurrences of your domain name in the code, which is good.> Is it? Well yes .. it stops the bots from indexing your non-www version (if any). A good case study in this regard will be helpful.

3. It is more recognizable to visitors and are likely to bookmark, provided the content is worth it.> The visitors are not going to see the source anyways. They will just click on Bookmark and thats it! So wheres the big deal?

YES, more ‘contextual authority links’ and thats the BIG trick.

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By: Mohan

Mohan — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:50:39 +0000

Mani,
Does Absolute linking actually do you more good in terms of search engines and real users?

Because most of the web designers I’ve met recommended the usage of Relative linking. I never knew why it mattered…

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By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:01:59 +0000

Alan, I’m afraid Konetara is not going to help you in your SEO efforts. It’s only an AD stream. By contextual links I meant, incoming links from related websites, thorough contextual content. It’s better to have links from other blogs that are related to your own topic than totally unrelated websites/blogs. Hope its clear to you now.

By: ALANJ878

ALANJ878 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:01:26 +0000

What do you mean by contextual links? I am asking this because I have just implemented Kontera into http://livelymoney.blogspot.com/ and I wondering will Kontera contextual improve my sites’ seo

By: Techblissonline.com

Techblissonline.com — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:09:36 +0000

I see 9960 links for you in yahoo vishal..

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