Internal Linking

[Scotty_Wilson]

Hi, I'm doing internal anchor text links. Relative path. if I use /destination-page instead of https://website.com/destination-page will I still receive a transfer of internal Google trust to the destination page? Does google treat just the / url the same as full url??

[EGOL]

Google will treat /destination-page and https://website.com/destination-page the same.

Some webmasters always use https://website.com/destination-page. That way, if someone copy/pastes from their site into a forum or into a quote on a blog, the full urls will produce backlinks.

[Scotty_Wilson]

Thank you. I thought so, however, I wanted someone to confirm. You have a good point about copied links for blogs etc...  I've always used the full URL, however, I'm faced with a technical situation that has caused my client to want /url not the full urls.

Cheers! Scott

[EGOL]

We add appropriate internal links in all of our articles.  Although we don't syndicate or grant permission for our articles to be republished, many webmasters copy/pasting quotes into their content have produced thousands of backlinks.