SEO Perspective of Absolute URL VS Relative URL-PART II

This is the second part of my blog in which I have described the difference between Absolute and Relative URL in terms of SEO

WHICH ONE IS BETTER ?

Well absolute URL are preferable over relative URL for a number of reasons;

• As absolute URL provides the full address and also helps you from being scrapped. So there is no possibility of ambiguity in case of absolute URL
• Search engine makes less mistakes while crawling pages in case of absolute URL'S while in case of relative URL'S several minor crawlers try to get incorrect URL
• also absolute URL is preferable over relative URL as it better deals wit the broken links.

SEARCH ENGINE PERSPECTIVE:

In terms of SEO perspective like that of SEO London and specifically talking about internal linking, following are some of the key points of absolute and relative URL

Absolute URL in terms of internal linking

• Absolute URL in terms of internal linking
• Better handles the issue of canonicalization
• In terms of site hijacking its way better
• While switching to a new CMS it provides lot of security
• It can help you when your content is stolen from you
• In terms of distribution of content via email. Absolute URL is a better choice
• Might be easier for search engines to follow as they resolve all relative URLs to absolute ones before following them.

Relative URL in terms of internal linking

• Provides an ease when moving from one domain to another domain
• Reduces the page download time considerable as it shortens the code