Absolute or relative URLs, which is better?

Absolute or relative URLs, which is better?

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In this episode of AskGooglebot, John Mueller explains the differences between absolute and relative URLs and if there is a preference in how a search engine crawls and indexes them. This question was submitted by Mike H. Thank you!

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