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VGF
22-05-10, 00:27
Wouldn't it be better / easier for search engine bots to find our translated pages if the links were spelled out completely ?

This is how it is in View Source



<a href="/ar/" ><img width="16" height="11" src="http://www.vbenterprisetranslator.com/forum/images/vbet/flags/ar.gif" alt="Arabic" border="0"/></a>


some spiders / search engine bots may interpret <a href="/ar/" > as a dead link...even though we can click on them fine.

vBET
22-05-10, 23:28
Wouldn't it be better / easier for search engine bots to find our translated pages if the links were spelled out completely ?

This is how it is in View Source



some spiders / search engine bots may interpret <a href="/ar/" > as a dead link...even though we can click on them fine.

No they wont. This is standard relative URL. Every browser and spider knows how it works. Also you are saving your bandwidth by sending shorter (relative) URL's. So this is good for you :)

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