Does a hashtag link pass the same amount of link juice as a link without a hashtag?
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Example 1:
link to: http://www.domain.com/#something-inside-the-page
Example 2:
link to: http://www.domain.com/
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Folks commonly link with hastags, and I believe they pass as much link juice as any other type of link. Google is pretty good at figuring out they belong to the same page, but the canonical never hurts. (well, it can, but probably not in this situation.)
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Thanks! good time with the rel=canonical!
cheers,
storwell
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Links that include named anchors (the #something-inside-page part) behave the same way as URLs with other types of URL parameters (e.g. domain.com?variable=whatever)
So short answer is yes, they'll pass link juice as usual.
BUT these kinds of links are prone to creating duplicate content issues. Search engines will see each as a different URL containing the same content when the links get indexed.. At the very least, make sure you've got rel=canonical implemented on the destination page. That way the SEs will know that the page similarities are intentional and will know to give the link authority to to the real URL without the variables.
Note - this is the same issue we run into when putting links with Google Analytics tracking variables out in the wild (e.g.domain.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=whatever) so the same precautions need to be taken.
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