Hi,

I'm wondering if there's any negative SEO impact to using relative paths in menu code vs absolute.

If there are multiple domains pointed to a website (using 301 redirects of course), will a relative path cause the search engines to think there are multiple pages with the same content?


Kathleen

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Hi Kathleen,

So long as your Additional Domain Names are not masked and actually redirect to your main URL, then relative paths will not hurt your ranking.

The only time a relative path would hurt your ranking is if your Additional Domains displayed the same content without redirecting.

For instance if I have DomainOne.com and DomainTwo.com. If I type in DomainTwo.com and it brings up the page for DomainOne.com only the address in the Address Bar is still DomainTwo.com then I might have an issue.

What you want instead is a 301 redirect from DomainTwo.com -> DomainOne.com (which you stated already exists). The 301 redirect actually stands for "This Page Has Moved Permenantly." This means that when a browser (or bot) comes to this page it knows that the page does not exist and where to find the page you asked for. Your browsers (or bots) address bar will then also update with the correct URL to show that the page doesn't exist or has moved.

That means after this redirect has occured the ACTUAL URL becomes DomainOne.com and the bot's treat DomainTwo.com as though they don't exist (because they really don't). The bots won't even index your second domain.

Hope that helps.

Westin,

Thanks for your response. Makes sense!

Kathleen

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