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How does # in the URL affect a link?
Old 04-15-2007, 04:51 AM How does # in the URL affect a link?
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A lot of the articles I write for use on my own site are a bit long, with lots of pictures to illustrate, so they need a table of contents. I use anchors just before the H2 section, and a TOC with a lot of hyperlinks to #someSection.

In photo forums, sometimes a person will ask a question that I've covered exactly in part of an article, so I'll refer them to that section. But this transforms a URL, say from .../Protecting-Digital-Images.html to .../Protecting-Digital-Images.html#imgRedSection. Do bots understand that these are the same page? I've been assuming they just ignore the #anchor, but thought about dynamic query strings, and wanted to make sure.

I'm working on a couple of new articles, and thinking about using javascript to move from the TOC downward, which wouldn't change the URL in the address bar when people decide to link to me.
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Old 04-15-2007, 04:54 AM Re: How does # in the URL affect a link?
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Do bots understand that these are the same page
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I've been assuming they just ignore the #anchor
They do
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Old 04-15-2007, 10:45 AM Re: How does # in the URL affect a link?
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What Hirst said. The page is still the page...it's just a different point in the page.
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