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I am a bit of confused about internal and external links. Basically I am designing my SEO.

So what is the basic difference between internal and external links?

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When you link your pages within your own directory tree limit, is called Internal Link. While a user browsing your website, the browser is already in your directory, then you can point links from the current directory and don't need to specify a full URL path.

External links which link your pages to other web sites.

In order to create an external link to another web site, you need to know the other web site's URL with full path.

eg: https://www.w3schools.com/html/

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External links point from one domain to an entirely separate domain. They may be links from your website to another website to provide additional information for readers, or they may be links from your website to an affiliate program. Links from other sites into yours can also be called external links, although the preferred term is “inbound” links, to distinguish them from links you’ve added to your own site that connect to other sites.

Internal links only point within your own specific website or domain. The menu bar at the top of your site includes internal links. Links from pages on your site to your contact page are another simple example of internal links.

External = links that point to a separate domain

Internal = links that point to content within the same domain

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Internal would be things such as /page.html, that are located on your website.

External would be a link outside of your site, such as www.google.com!

EX:

<a href="https://www.example.com">EXTERNAL LINK</a>

<a href="/index.html">INTERNAL LINK</a>
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Internal linking is a type of URL by using which you will browse your answer on the same web page but In External linking you jump to another web page .

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