When linking internally, you will often find that sites are set up to use the relative URL, e.g. a href=”/linkedtopage.html” as opposed to the full URL.

People often question whether there are any benefits / differences between these two practices when it comes to SEO, and it seems as if the search engines treat them exactly the same. In spite of this it is often recommended that absolute URLs be used when lnking internally, especially in content.

The reason for this is that there are a lot of scraper sites out there which will often copy the code exactly as it is, and if you use the absolute URL there’s a chance that you will get a link back from the site, helping you to get the best from the situation