Absolute URLs are much better for SEO than relative URLs for a number of reasons. For one, if your content, or entire site, gets scraped, there's a good chance the URL structure will remain in its original form and absolute URLs will link back to your original content. Another reason to use absolute URLs is to prevent duplicate content penalties when a development site gets crawled by search engines. Relative URLs will result in links to the two different sites, whereas absolute URLs could be configured to point only to the live site.

It would really be helpful if there was an option to generate absolute URLs or to generate absolute URLs by default.

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I'd be happy to accept a patch for such a feature. Thanks for the idea Eorr!

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I wish I could but it's a bit over my head. Hopefully someone with the time and skill will also find this useful.

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Given that the D8 launch is this month, I won't be adding new features to the D7 version of Alinks. But, there are 5 other similar modules that might do what you need listed on the Alinks module page.

~Greg