A Googler’s Sage Advice on Absolute vs. Relative URLs

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A Googler’s Sage Advice on Absolute vs. Relative URLs A common question in the SEO space is should I use absolute or relative URLs. Absolute URLs are when you link a URL by using the domain.com portion as well, so linking to my authors page would be a link like http://www.seroundtable.com/authors.php. The relative URL for that authors page would be a link like /authors.php. As you can imagine, there are pros and cons. JohnMu, a Googler, has an outstanding post in a Google Groups thread with

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