Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
The URLs look like this:
www.example.com/brose.html#widget1
www.example.com/brose.html#widget2
www.example.com/brose.html#widget3
www.example.com/brose.html#widget4
Obviously this is not the best way to do this and I'm getting the webmasters to change this. I was just wondering are these actually crawled and indexed for those URLs? Shouldn't this be avoided in all cases?
URL's with pound signs
I have to say you had me totally baffled by this and the examples until I found this explanation:
"The # key on US keyboards is a minor irritation for the British - it's where '£', our pound sign, should be.
Furthermore, Americans mispronounce the # sign as pound, when everyone else knows it should be 'hash' (Alright everyone except BT, whose operators insist on calling it the 'square' key on the phone).
The U.S. usage derives from an old-fashioned commercial practice of using a # suffix to tag pound weights on bills of lading. The character is usually pronounced `hash' outside the U.S. There are more culture wars over the correct pronunciation of this character than any other, which has led to the ha ha only serious suggestion that it be pronounced `shibboleth' (see Judges 12:6 in an Old Testament or Tanakh)."
Ok...glad we got that sorted out:-)
Shouldn't this be avoided in all cases?
No, they're a perfect solution for on-page navigation.
Of course you know that even in between pages, a link with a poundhashsquare (#) in the URL will not pass any relevance. The anchor text will not make much of a difference to the ranking of the target page.
[edited by: Miamacs at 12:02 am (utc) on July 12, 2007]
