Can 'Jump link'/'Anchor tag' urls rank in Google for keywords?
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E.g. www.website.com/page/#keyword-anchor-text
Where the part after the # is a section of the page you can jump to, and the title of that section is a secondary keyword you want the page to rank for?
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Hi,
Occasionally you might see Google does this where they will return a URL and as part of the description, show a hashed anchor - but they won't show just an anchor as a result in its own right. It will always form part of the page that Google returns.
Worth doing if you think it might help usability but it wouldn't fit for every page and circumstance. Have seen it used to good effect, but am seeing less and less of these.
-Andy
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