Absolute Links

[petad]

I'd be interested in Rich's view on this article I found regarding the use of absolute links on the site? I believe that the first part of internal links on Bluepark (the domain) is removed automatically, and this article is suggesting that the full URL is more Search Engine friendly:

Use Absolute Links Internally

"It sounds complicated but it's not. Absolute links are
those with a fixed full URL. There's another kind, called
"relative" links that skip the first part of the domain and
remain "relative" to the file structure. Let's take a look
at the difference...

Here's the absolute link to the Google Ads page from
Google's homepage: "http://www.google.com/intl/en/ads/ (http://www.google.com/intl/en/ads/)"

Here's what it might look like as a relative link:
"./intl/en/ads/"

Long story short; absolute links help your SEO efforts and
relative links don't."

Pete

[Rich]

There's no benefit to using the full domain in the link. If you're linking internally, root-relative links as we use (with the initial "/") do exactly the same job. It just means "this page is on our site".

It prevents bloating the page with unnecessary absolute URLs. It's also technically the best solution, as it ensures portability should you ever decide to move to a different domain name.

[john]

Google also uses absolute links because it uses so many different domain names for all it's various services, they are not all on the same domain and switch backwards and forwards between .com and co.uk etc., so relative links would be useless.

[petad]

OK, thanks for the feedback.