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SEO Glossary of Terms
A Glossary of Terms relating to search engine optimisation (seo)
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Relative link

A relative link is a type of link that will highlight the relationship between the URL which is current and the URL of the linked page. Sometimes a relative link will be shown rather than the URL in the href tag. However it is better to use absolute links rather than relative ones as hijacking and canonicalisation is becoming a problem.