Does a www.domain.com/# count as a link?
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Hi I thinking about consolidation some info from 5 pages onto 1 by using the hashtag at the end of the link to send people to the rigt section of the page. Does each link to the www.domain.com/# count as link so that I wont really gain any linkvalue by doing it?
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Google does read and link to anchor text links on a page. A simple example, search Google.com for "Type 1 diabetes". The third result is from Wikipedia. At the bottom of the search result, below the meta description you will see numerous anchor text selections: Classifications, Signs and Symptoms, Cause, Pathophysiology.
If you hover over each of those links, you will notice the URL offered is the #anchor link. If you click on the Cause link, for example, you will be taken to the Cause portion of the page, not the top.
Additionally Google not only sees the link, but they are clearly capturing the anchor text as well. Normally Google only associates anchor text to the first link for a given page. By using the hashtag, you are able to associate anchor text with multiple links on the same page.
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I am not an expert here but I am certain it doesn't.
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is an anchor to a section of the webpage. So theoretically it is not considered as a link
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I have never ever click on a link in google that contains the hash tag.
my 2 cents.
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