SEO: in site links?

[mgstudent]

Hi all and thx for any advice.

New to all of this and have started building sites taking seo into consideration.
On my sites I usually have:

index.htm, contactus.htm, aboutus.htm that all have the same navigation bar and so the links to each other.
I was wondering if it made a difference if these links to each other were the full "http://www.mydomain.com/contactus.htm" or simply "contactus.htm"

Will the search engines favor one or the other?


Thanks for your help.

[Collector]

This is interesting.

I have always assumed that they are treated the same... however I may be all wrong.

I usually include the entire url even for internal links just to be safe.

[mgstudent]

I'm guessing that they're treated the same by the search engines but it might be useful to know for sure...

I'm trying to get the edge !

Does anyone know out there?

[Sinfully Wicked]

The best way to link to your internal pages is using http://www.domain.com why? because it makes it easier for the spiders to crawl and it indexes faster because when the spider sees http:www.domain.com/contact.htm it relates contact.html to http:www.domain.com where as just making it contact.htm takes a little while linger to establish a relationship with that domain.

This is just my opinion which i have tryed the different methods out and http://www.domain.com/contact.htm seemed to work better.

Thank you

Sin