: Linking internal anchor text This might be a very stupid question but It bugs me so I have to get it out here: Lets say on my websites blog page I have a link, I can either go: <a

@Jennifer507

If you're saying example.org is not your site and goes to a different domain, then you'll get hit with a manual spam action at some point. You cannot mislead users as to where they're going. Being transparent in your anchor text and having a good internal link structure can help your SEO. The Penguin update by Google was an algorithm to prevent deceptive linking.

If you're saying you're using only index.php instead of the entire URL, then there is no preference one over the other. Just be transparent with the anchor text and have a good internal link structure.

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@Eichhorn148

For SEO purposes use always absolute linking, like
<a href="http://www.example.org>homepage</a>. And use always title attribute, which should correlate with the link anchor and, in best case, with the title+h1 of linked page.

On this way you ensure, that your site is correctly crawled and the crawler understands the meaning of each link and the meaning of realtions between pages.

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