Savvy Affiliate

Sometimes you will read posts telling you to use blog relative links instead of absolute links, this is a very bad idea

Relative links are links to another post in relation to the current page.  so if I wanted to link to another page in the same directory I would link like <a href=”file”>   if I wanted to go out a directory I would use <a href=”../file”>   But you should never use relative links in your blog!   The reason for this is that many feeds don’t interpret relative links correctly.  Although some feed readers are smart enough to process them, by no means do all the feed readers get it right.

If you use relative links, your subscribers will get an error when they try to click in.  The solution of course is to use absolute links whenever you link to another post, (i.e. <a href = “http:www.yoursite.com/yourpost”> )   But absolute links can present another problem, they can cause you to put pingbacks on your own site.

So how can you use absolute links and avoid self pingbacks?  Well, like everything having to do with wordpress, the answer is a plugin.    And what is that plugin called?  Yes, you guessed it, No Self Pings.  Upload it and your self pinging days are over, which is a huge boon if you write series of posts, as often self pings can start to overwhelm the legitimate ones.