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SEO and Internal Link Generation?
As a long-time coder, I've always favored writing "internal website links" as paths relative to the Website's Root (a href="/some_path/target.html"), rather than fully-declared URLs (a href="http://www.myhost.com/some_path/target.html").
I've coded websites with internal links this way for years, as it makes the site much more portable across multiple hostnames. It's also been particularly handy with HTML editors like Dreamweaver to reuse boilerplate modules or snippets.
I've been pondering a change to such coding habits, in light of the web industry's aggressive emphasis on SEO, and I'm curious about your thoughts as to how links could affect SEO scoring.
Would the Search Engine Giants like Google, Yahoo, or Bing really care much about "internal website links" being generated as full URLs or Relative Paths?
.. and along the same lines, would they reward or penalize websites that had "internal website links" as a mish-mashed mixture of URLs rooted in multiple hostnames, like "myhost.com", "www.myhost.com", and "www2.myhost.com" if all those domains are essentially mirrors of the same content?
I've coded websites with internal links this way for years, as it makes the site much more portable across multiple hostnames. It's also been particularly handy with HTML editors like Dreamweaver to reuse boilerplate modules or snippets.
I've been pondering a change to such coding habits, in light of the web industry's aggressive emphasis on SEO, and I'm curious about your thoughts as to how links could affect SEO scoring.
Would the Search Engine Giants like Google, Yahoo, or Bing really care much about "internal website links" being generated as full URLs or Relative Paths?
.. and along the same lines, would they reward or penalize websites that had "internal website links" as a mish-mashed mixture of URLs rooted in multiple hostnames, like "myhost.com", "www.myhost.com", and "www2.myhost.com" if all those domains are essentially mirrors of the same content?
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Luttrell on -
I've been reading up on whole SEO craze and still can't determine where nerd sorcery ends and logic begins. Ask 50 people and you're bound to get a fist fight about it. Personally, I tend to look at the content of sites and chuck their relative position in Google or Yahoo out the window because I know that people are goofing around and trying to outwit the spiders thinking that position means everything yet fail to have a well built site or good content to back it up.
However, I found a couple of really good discussions on this particular topic.
The website referenced is a great source for SEO information.
http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/seo-web-design/internal-link...
http://www.seodesignsolutions.com/blog/seo/seo-and-internal-linking/
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