Will implementing a 'Scroll to Div Anchor' cause a duplicate content issue?
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I have just been building a website for a client with pages that contain a lot of text content. To make things easier for site visitors I have created a menu bar that sticks to the top of the page and the page will scroll to different areas of content (i/e different Div id anchors)
Having done this I have just had the thought that this might inadvertently introduce duplicate content issue.
Does anyone know if adding an #anchor to the end of a url will cause a duplicate content error in google?
For example, would the following URLs be treated as different:-
http://www.mysite.co.uk/services
http://www.mysite.co.uk/services#anchor1
http://www.mysite.co.uk/services#anchor2
http://www.mysite.co.uk/services#anchor3
http://www.mysite.co.uk/services#anchor4Thanks.
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Thanks Matt,
Minor panic over!
Cheers.
Ade. -
Here's a good whiteboard Friday from the man himself: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-using-the-hash
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Everything after the # is ignored so this will not cause duplicate content issues. Crawlers will only see a single URL, i.e. http://www.mysite.co.uk/services
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