diff --git a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/__tests__/__snapshots__/extend-node.js.snap b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/__tests__/__snapshots__/extend-node.js.snap
index ea0037d98fb71..4372b594b1f07 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/__tests__/__snapshots__/extend-node.js.snap
+++ b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/__tests__/__snapshots__/extend-node.js.snap
@@ -55,6 +55,13 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
+exports[`Links are correctly prefixed correctly prefixes links 1`] = `
+Object {
+  "html": "<p>This is <a href=\\"/prefix/path/to/page1\\">a link</a>.</p>
+<p>This is <a href=\\"/prefix/path/to/page2\\">a reference</a></p>",
+}
+`;
+
 exports[`Table of contents is generated correctly from schema correctly generates table of contents 1`] = `
 Object {
   "frontmatter": Object {
diff --git a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/__tests__/extend-node.js b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/__tests__/extend-node.js
index b338fe24fce7b..51fcb01df9803 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/__tests__/extend-node.js
+++ b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/__tests__/extend-node.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ const {
 const extendNodeType = require(`../extend-node-type`)
 
 // given a set of nodes and a query, return the result of the query
-async function queryResult(nodes, fragment, { types = [] } = {}) {
+async function queryResult(nodes, fragment, { types = [] } = {}, additionalParameters) {
   const inferredFields = inferObjectStructureFromNodes({
     nodes,
     types: [...types],
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ async function queryResult(nodes, fragment, { types = [] } = {}) {
         set: () => null,
       },
       getNodes: () => [],
+      ...additionalParameters,
     },
     {
       plugins: [],
@@ -89,7 +90,8 @@ const bootstrapTest = (label, content, query, test, additionalParameters = {}) =
         query,
         {
           types: [{ name: `MarkdownRemark` }],
-        }
+        },
+        additionalParameters
       ).then(result => {
         try {
           test(result.data.listNode[0])
@@ -348,7 +350,27 @@ final text
     frontmatter {
         title
     }`,
+  (node) => {
+    expect(node).toMatchSnapshot()
+  })
+})
+
+describe(`Links are correctly prefixed`, () => {
+  bootstrapTest(
+    `correctly prefixes links`,
+    `
+This is [a link](/path/to/page1).
+
+This is [a reference]
+
+[a reference]: /path/to/page2
+`,
+    `html`,
     (node) => {
       expect(node).toMatchSnapshot()
-    })
-  })
+      expect(node.html).toMatch(`<a href="/prefix/path/to/page1">`)
+      expect(node.html).toMatch(`<a href="/prefix/path/to/page2">`)
+    },
+    { pathPrefix: `/prefix` }
+  )
+})
diff --git a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/extend-node-type.js b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/extend-node-type.js
index e2b1eb0fea9eb..fe95b3fd7bc48 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/extend-node-type.js
+++ b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/src/extend-node-type.js
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ module.exports = (
 
               if (pathPrefix) {
                 // Ensure relative links include `pathPrefix`
-                visit(markdownAST, `link`, node => {
+                visit(markdownAST, [`link`, `definition`], node => {
                   if (
                     node.url &&
                     node.url.startsWith(`/`) &&