yoursite.com/page1/index.html">www.yoursite.com/page1/index.html

Relative: You use an automatic path to the file

ex. /page1/index.html

Relative gives a path that is "assumed". Your browser will automatically "assume" to put www.yoursite.com before the link.

When researching these two methods, I used 4 factors to consider:

1. 20 Different popular search terms
   
   
2. Top 20 listings
   
   
3. Top 10 "Inbound Links" for pages within the site
   
   
4. Relative/Absolute urls NOT images
   
   

So here's the results of this study:

1. The average results within the 20 search terms had a ratio of: Absolute 40% / Relative 60%
   
   
   
2. The average inbound links for each site I researched had a ratio of: Absolute %50 / Relative 50%
   
   

So it seems safe to say that Google doesn't necessarily rank "absolute/relative" paths differently.

Google may recognize the fact that neither method is wrong, it only reflects the designers preference.

There's only 1 type of Absolute and Relative paths that get a bad rank. Web sites that use "tracking url's" or data base urls get a significant reduction in page rank emmediately.

The easiest way to notice this in action

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