The crawler fully 'understands' both methods, but bear in mind that in addition to rendering the source code, the crawler also treats the rendered code as text. References to domains can provide a modest increase in performance. While I don't know the exact amount, I'm guessing it's not more than a few percent.
This information comes from our in-house SEO department who are all Google, and Yahoo certified in SEO/SEM. andy -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Geary Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:38 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: How to access href-property Is that really true? A crawler has to convert all relative URLs to their full form in order to get to those pages. So it has the exact same full URL on hand whether the HTML has a full or relative URL. I don't have any hard evidence one way or the other, it just seems surprising that a search engine would treat full and relative URLs any differently, given that it has the full URL in all cases anyway. -Mike > From: Andy Matthews > > As an FYI, while I personally prefer relative URLs for simplicity and > code reuse, full URLs in the HREF attribute provide slightly better > SEO due to the replication of the domain name.
