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Old March 4th, 2005, 03:55 PM
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Internal linking - best way
What is the best format to use for internal links?


Like if you are linking to your homepage from an internal page within the site, should you use "/", "index.html" or the full url http://www.domain.com ?

What about the other internal pages? Full urls or "filename".html?


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If you are strictly a static site, don't have multiple URLs, subdomains, never plan to move your site or have https://, then relative linking /cat/page.html - is fine. Otherwise, I'd use absolute URLs in the link - www.site.com/cat/page.html
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Thank you randfish.

My sites are static, I pretty much have each page like this: http://www.domainname.com/file.html , I don't use subdirectories (/cat/)

So, if I'm linking to my homepage internally I would use this: "/" not "index.html" right?


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funny, I'm finding this a controversial topic, seems like people don't agree

some people recommend using absolute urls to make it difficult for site content thieves

others say that you want a hompage link as an absolute because that is what is linked to externally


very confusing
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Absolutely absolute
As randfish has said, you can use either. I prefer absolute for all links and am very...very close to looking at absolute to image files as well.


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So, if I'm linking to my homepage internally I would use this: "/" not "index.html" right?
For the home page I use an absolute URL: http://www.domain.com/
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