Home link tags slash or full domain name

[spiralsites]

Recently I was asked the question by a client who has some SEO knowledge.....

We built their site and during testing we simply set the home page links to be:

home

rather than:

home

This was mainly to help while in test and dev as they were on different servers to the live site and if we had put the full domain in it kept taking us from dev/test to live.

Is it bad to have just a slash for SEO purposes or is it REALLY that important on home links to have the full domain as a slash takes you back to the full domain?

Thanks

[irvingw]

I would make it absolute.

You can code it to dynamically insert the base URL, then if it's on dev it will populate the dev URL, when it goes live it populates the production base URL.