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Facebook Vanity URLs Could Help Search Engine Rankings

Facebook is the most popular social network in the world. In areas where others have advantages over it, Facebook seems to be making changes to improve.Obviously there is the new Twitter-like functionality of its real-time news feeds/filters. But Mike Arrington points out another thing that Facebook is starting to do - vanity URLs.

Absolute and Relative URLs

I have this ongoing discussion with the development team of one of my clients. They insist on using relative URLs on their numerous development servers. Naturally, I tell them that those can lead to trouble when the pages go live and, of course, they do. What is the difference between an absolute URL and a relative URL? For newbies out there, a relative URL points to links on a server in a local manner like this - a href="contact.html" - where you just point to the page link like you are right there working on the server.