Gifly.com: url structure for new site with only one kind of page

[mylittlepwny]

Hi, we are launching a new site called Gifly.com, it's all about Gifs. At the moment, our robots.txt is blocking everything because we want to have a solid url structure before going public.

There is only one kind of page, the permalink which has this form:

http://gifly.com/QPmf/ (the four characters 'QPmf' are completely random)

What we made different from the multitude of other Gifs site is that we are
trying to categorize gifs with hashtags, so we introduced these kind of urls:

http://gifly.com/FoYi/
http://gifly.com/FoYi/#fail
http://gifly.com/FoYi/#blonde
http://gifly.com/FoYi/#dumb

This was done for several reason, the first is that each gif can have up to 10
hashtags.

Another approach to this could have been:

http://gifly.com/fail/FoYi/
http://gifly.com/blonde/FoYi/
http://gifly.com/dumb/FoYi/

...but we will face tons of duplicated contents for search engines because the same gif
would have 10x permalinks this way.

The way we use to navigate between hashtags is via buttons/ajax (see the list of hashtags on the left)
We know that google may have a hard time understanding the site's structure,

We'd like to know if the current set of urls, as:

http://gifly.com/FoYi/
http://gifly.com/FoYi/#fail
http://gifly.com/FoYi/#blonde
http://gifly.com/FoYi/#dumb

could be okay if we provide google a solid sitemap.

We are thinking about a first sitemap with the list of hashtags,
each hashtag points to a second sitemap containing the list of new gifs uploaded for said hashtag.

Thanks!

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[mylittlepwny]

Hi, thanks for the hint, we added bot the canonical url and the category page.

cheers

[StreamlineMetrics]

I would suggest setting the canonical tag on each of the GIF pages. So http://gifly.com/FoYi/ and http://gifly.com/FoYi/#blonde would not be considered duplicate content when Google encounters those URLs because Google knows that http://gifly.com/FoYi/ is the designated canonical URL that should be indexed regardless of any hashtags that happen to be appended to it.

I would also recommend setting up the category/hashtag pages as their own standalone pages. For example, all of the GIFs related to #blonde would be located on http://gifly.com/blonde/. Then once you click through to one of the individual GIF pages, they will link to http://gifly.com/FoYi/ or whatever the URL is. This way you can optimize the category pages for SEO, such as "Dumb Blonde GIFs" and put some original text on the page in addition to just the links to the individual GIFs.