Do href anchor links pass juice "as usual"?

[hasek747]

In your experience, does a link to an href anchor (< a href="#some-section-header>) pass the same "juice" as a stripped link to that same page? In other words, is a link to:

www.example.com/#some-section-title-on-the-front-page

the equivalent of a link to

www.example.com

or would you say there's a difference?

[3zero]

I believe google would follow both links

www.example.com/#some-section-title-on-the-front-page

and

www.example.com

if "www.example.com/#some-section-title-on-the-front-page" contained ajax loaded text it would also index that provided resources are not blocked.

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[hasek747]

Sorry, I was somewhat unclear.

What I meant to ask is whether, in both URL examples, Google would pass the exact same amount of link juice to the domain.com front page, or would there be some sort of "juice loss" in case of the URL with the href anchor?

[FranticFish]

From what I understand about PageRank it's calculated on a per-page basis. So, linking to
- the url including anchor
- the url of the page only
- both urls
is all the same because - whether it's either / or / both - it's all one page. You could link to it multiple times in multiple ways without affecting the PageRank flow (unless you used nofollow).