Difference between urls

[ebizdude]

can someone tell me does it make any difference search engine optimization, promotion, listing wise

url 1

www.mysite.com/what-is-my-name/

url

www.mysite.com/what-is-my-name/#more-121

infact what is the relevance if #

[Kufu]

You don't need to use dashes, and may also want to use fewer words in the directory names, if that is in fact the number of words you are using.

[tedster]

The "#" denotes a named anchor on the page -- helpful for letting visitors jump around a long page without scrolling, or linking directly to the relevant part of a page. Search engines don't index the anchor part of the url.

[Kufu]

I've always felt that if there is the need for anchor points then the page is too long as far as the user experience is concerned.

[caveman]

Kufu, be careful about that. Some of the most successful ecommerce pages on the Web are 10X the length of what's visible above the fold. There is room for both approaches, and there are benefits to the anchors as tedster points out.

[Kufu]

caveman,

I personally will click back from a site that has an excessively long page; but then again I'm not the normal Internet user--not many on this board are. :)

That said, anchors definitely have their uses.

[Storyman]

As much as I hate using any javascript on a web page (since many users have it turned off) anchor links are the one exception. The reason is that users are looking for information and the easier and faster they reach their destination the better. And if the browser's javascript is turned off it doesn't matter a hoot for the site's overall performance.