Which is the best internal linking?

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Which is the best internal linking? (in sense of seo friendly)If my URL is http://www.mysite.comMy site pageIndex.htmla.htmlb.htmlc.htmld.htmle.htmlNow which is best?1. My home pageHome.html, a.html, b.html, c.html, d.html, e.html2http://www.mysite.com/Home.htmlhttp://www.mysite.com/a.htmlhttp://www.mysite.com/b.htmlhttp://www.mysite.com/c.htmlhttp://www.mysite.com/d.htmlhttp://www.mysite.com/e.htmlOr Any other.I hope you all under stand my question.Please Give me best answer in sense of seo (Google) friendly .I try to use links like page.html rather than the full url, only because it looks more professional.I don't think it would make a difference SEO wise.Maybe im wrong, but i cant see how it would make a difference.If you're linking to pages within your site... relative links are best *IMO*. This makes for cleaner code, which to my understanding Google really "appreciates".In the sense of SE friendly, I don't think using absolute URLs vs usingrelative URLs makes a bit of difference.Bompawhat is a relative or a absolute url guys?reaper wrote:I agree that it doesn't matter.Thanks Bompa What about if we think that http://mysite.com and http://www.mysite.com are 2 different pages from a crawler's point of view?Then having absolute urls would slightly increase the PR of the subpages (knowing that http://www.mysite.com and http://mysite.com are 2 different pages linking to http://www.mysite.com/a.html).Another thing:I used to link to my index page from subpages using "index.html" (relative url) but noticed that http://www.mysite.com and http://www.mysite.com/index.html had different PRs so were considered different pages.I now use an absolute URL when linking back to my homepage.Relative vs. Absolute linking MAY have a small effect on your crap:content ratio.Having the extra...http://www.yourdomain.com/On each of your internal links, if you've got 20 navigation links, that could be an extra 500 characters you've got in your page.I've never seen it proven either way, but it would make sense, search engines like more content, less crap.Personally, I use relative links.alecs: with regard to hostname issues (domain.com vs. http://www.domain.com), simply setup a 301 redirect in .htaccess.Code: [ Select ]I haven't really thought of using htaccess before, thanks a lot for the tip Axe No problem. When I setup a new domain, it's the first thing I do. Forward *.domain.com/file to http://www.domain.com/file. Just makes sure all links point to the right places, passes along PR to a single location...It's also worth setting it up in case you park domains on top of other domains...Code: [ Select ]Axe, ive been tring to do the opposite. Im trying to focus backlinks to http://mydomain.com instead of http://www.mydomain.com , but sometimes when people backlink they use a www.I dont understand anything about making a rewrite rule.How would i make urls with www. in them 301 redirect to http://domain.com?Code: [ Select ]Cheers Axe, ill give that a go.