Marcia
msg:3330576 | 10:59 am on May 4, 2007 (gmt 0) |
It's a fine idea to use #widget for linking using named anchors but for a 301 redirect, I'd say /thepage/ simply because th PR will accrue to the page redirected to, and there's no indication that crawlers will follow a link to a named anchor. But mainly, to be sure the redirection will actually work. I've thought of it, but never done it, instead just used named anchors with links from other pages. It's part of the HTML specifications to used a named anchor but I doubt that it's specified as valid with Apache. I've never seen it in the Apache documentation.
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Panic_Man
msg:3330588 | 11:22 am on May 4, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Thanks for your input Marcia. I've set it up as a test and the 301 redirect (containing the #) is functional, in that it does redirect the browser to the anchored part of the main page. My main concern is how/if Google will react to the # as part of its 301 processing system. I'm still unsure. I assume that since google does not show anchors in its SERPS, Google must simply strip out the # part (and anything following it) and simply index the page using the main part of the URL. For some reason a part of me thinks that that might not be the case though...
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Panic_Man
msg:3332217 | 5:13 pm on May 6, 2007 (gmt 0) |
- bump - Anyone else have experience of this?
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jdMorgan
msg:3332238 | 5:54 pm on May 6, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Google should ignore the named anchor, as it is considered a "presentational" element. For the same reason, Clients never send named anchors in HTTP requests to servers; They send only the URL. Once the requested page has been fetched, clients then use the named anchors to navigate within the content to present the indicated part. Jim
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Panic_Man
msg:3332248 | 6:17 pm on May 6, 2007 (gmt 0) |
So it seems highly unlikely that this would cause any problems with Googles indexing systems. It's what I'd suspected, but its always good to get some feedback instead of just assuming. Thanks JDM. [edited by: Panic_Man at 6:18 pm (utc) on May 6, 2007]
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jonrichd
msg:3332274 | 6:52 pm on May 6, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Also, consider how many named anchors spiders run across when they crawl pages. If they would consider these pages separately from the 'main' page, there would be a lot of duplicate content within the SERPS. I assume that they just strip out anything after the # and add what's before to their crawl list.
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