diff --git a/org-roam.el b/org-roam.el
index e1b0c3b..ec0ff88 100644
--- a/org-roam.el
+++ b/org-roam.el
@@ -531,14 +531,16 @@ The search terminates when the first property is encountered."
   "Crawl CONTENT for relative links and expand them.
 PATH should be the root from which to compute the relativity."
   (let ((dir (file-name-directory path))
-        link)
+        link link-type)
     (with-temp-buffer
       (insert content)
       (goto-char (point-min))
       ;; Loop over links
       (while (re-search-forward org-roam--org-link-bracket-typed-re (point-max) t)
-        (setq link (match-string 2))
-        (when (f-relative-p link)
+        (setq link-type (match-string 1)
+              link (match-string 2))
+        (when (and (string-equal link-type "file")
+                   (f-relative-p link))
           (save-excursion
             (goto-char (match-beginning 2))
             (delete-region (match-beginning 2)