Meaning of: "/"!

[Lotfi MA]

Hello everybody,

I came accross such coding: <A href="/"..>.

What "/" means, its advantages and disadvantages.

Thanks in advance for the kind help.

[WestWeb]

/ is where the anchor link is going to take the user that clicks on the link.

/ will take the user to the domains root, or homepage typically. In other words, if your domain was example.com, the link would take you to whatever page displays at http://example.com/

The advantage to using / is that the anchor links using it will still work if you move your websites files under a different domain name. Plus it is shorter than typing out your domain name every time.

[Lotfi MA]

That is great WestWeb, thanks a lot.

But do not you think it may represent a deficiency in terms of SEO?

[WestWeb]

From what I have read it is just older search engines that get confused by relative links like href="about/us". I think the trick there used to be to always start your links with /.

If it really concerns you, do a search for something like "SEO absolute vs relative links" and you should find some more in depth information on the pros and cons of such.

[Lotfi MA]

Very appreciated, WestWeb!

I searched and I got good answer.