I understand the importance of, when assigning a link to buttons for your home page use www(dot)homepage.com rather than www(dot)hompepage.com/index.html to prevent duplicates.

What about the buttons for the other pages? Is there any reason to use http://www(dot)homepage.com/communities.html verse using simply /communities.html as the link?

Will using the latter create dupicate content the same way it would for the home page senario?

I hope this question makes sense. Sorry i it doesn't.

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The short answer... no. Using the relative path (/communities.html) will resolve to exactly the same url (no duplicates) and allows you to run everything on your local server before loading it.

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But remember that running relative paths are only good if everything is in the same directory. In other words if you place a link that is on a page in the "news/" directory to a page in your web root, you will need to place a global URL such as "http://www(.)my site(.)com/contact.html". This is especially important if you utilize a blog or a CMS that doesn't have static URLs.