Most sites have a link to their home page from subpages. How should the link be coded? I have left of certain understood html code for brevity.

Examples:

1. a href="/" (root based link always goes to site's root index page)
2. a href="/index.html" (root based link pointing to specific page)
3. a href="http://www.sitename.com" (full url pointing to website domain)
4. Other?

I personally feel the first one is best. This way you aren't splitting your page rank that is being passed between your domain name and your page, so to speak.

Especially if all your external links are pointing to "http://www.sitename.com".

I'd love opinions on this. Thanks.

1 and 3 give the same results except for one thing... the relative link will simply become www.blabla.com and would only be usefull if this page would be moved to a different domain, then it would become www.newdomain.com automatically.

I use 3 cause I don't expect to move the domain... plus my link to home is an include and I just have one file to change so the whole site is updated with the new URL.

I think consistancy is the most important. I think that #2 creates a link to http://domain.com rather than the http://www.domain.com which most definately does create problems....Otherwise the one that google should like best would be the most efficient choice of #1.

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