2 Menu links to same page. Is this a problem?

[Dino64]

One of my clients wants to link to the same page from several places in the navigation menu. Does this create any crawl issues or indexing problems?

It's the same page (same url) so there is no duplicate content problems. Since the page is promotional, the client wants the page accessible from different places in the nav bar.

Thanks, Dino

[taryn_s]

Hi,

Although it seems slightly strange, I can't see any significant SEO issues which it might cause. Have you asked the client why they want to do this? As I'm sure you know, usually one page should focus on one topic and therefore require one link from a main navigation.

Something worth considering would be the internal anchor text which Google will take in to consideration for the linked-to page. If you have 2 or more links on one page linking to the same page, Google will use the first instance of the link as the anchor text. This is something you may want to have a think about.

[KevinBudzynski]

No huge deal. Matt Cutts discussed this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AsLWIuNNMU. The short of it is that the same division of PR applies as other links.