Hi all,

Im reading on another forum that if you simply add this
#-your-keywords
to the end of your URL it will boost your rank. Anyone hear anything on this? You make your link look like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/#-cheap-hotels
it also seems to work like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/?-cheap-hotels

The thread can be found here:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic...r=asc&&start=0

I tried this 3 days ago on another URL and different keywords and watched my rank for those keywords jump from #19 to #4 in 27 hours.

I am somewhat concerned about what would happen if I did this though, I mean, I dont want to get in trouble with G but then again I cant see how there could be anything wrong with optimizing my links.

Any comments?

I'm assuming (if this works) and you have (...some-page.html#your-keywords) actually pointing to an anchor (<a name="your-keywords">) on the page it is linking to, you won't be penalized.

That is what I was thinking. I cant imagine how the SE's would penalize you because then people could just link to competitiors using this method to get them in trouble.

Has anyone tried this? It sounds like a shady keyword stuffing thing. I think if another webmaster saw this, they could report it to google, and you could be banned manually. I am all for honest internet. Keyword stuffing is plain bad for internet users, because it can lead to spam in search results. I think google has a good reason for sticking it to webmasters who use this technique.

But my question is this...

If you can be banned for it, why would competitors not just use it to ban the comp?