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Google vs Webdesign best practice

Monday, November 26th, 2007

I can’t believe it, but this is a “helpful solution” for problems with the google bot:

Where possible, use absolute rather than relative links. (For instance, when linking to another page in your site, link to www.example.com/mypage.html rather than simply mypage.html).

To be honest: if somebody does this, I will get aggressiv ;P Let’s think about it: Maybe your website ist located at mytest.mydomain.net so the link to your main page should point to http://mytest.mydomain.net/index.html instead of ./index.html. So you’ll have a lot of fun when moving to www.mydomain.net and changing your links…
Yes, I know the function “search & replace”, but I don’t like regular expressions and you just have to change the href=”xyz” stuff :D