Does Google follow links to page bookmarks

Does using the <a name> tag make any difference?

[salmo]

I have several links on a site with the following syntax: www.domain.com/page.html#bookmark. Does Googlebot have any problem following such a link?

Thanks for any help.

[CuriousWeb]

hi salmo

I'm not 100% sure but I think Google does not index bookmarks

are your links on the same pages as the bookmarks?...

[Mohamed_E]

My guess is that when Google sees www.domain.com/page.html#bookmark it truncates it to www.domain.com/page.html.

My reasoning is that you are pointing to a page (which Google is interested in) and are specifying a location within that page (that Google does not care about). So it keeps the page and ignores the location.

[salmo]

Thanks, that is what I would have thought but it is good to have it confirmed. I use Atomz search on the site and that seems to be the case with the site wide search, it truncates the Url after the html.