: Do descriptive over basic anchor links have any bearing on SEO? I have a page containing several different products, one after the other, each one on a separate line. Each product has a unique

@Turnbaugh106

When is the last time you noticed a site being indexed with a 'HASH' within the URL, the answer is never. Google treats the hashes within a URL to be HASH Fragments and they do not use them to rank a site.

To get around this issue your pages should be accessible without the HASH fragments, a quick example of this looks like this:

example.com/location#bournemouth <--- users example.com/location?bournemouth <--- bots example.com/website#seo <--- users example.com/website?seo <--- bots example.com/website#design <--- users example.com/website?design <--- bots


Also you could opt to use HASHBANG e.g

www.example.com/#!design/ <--- users www.example.com/?_escaped_fragment_=design/ <--- Bots


The above code is just an example to give you an idea and you can think up your own structure.

Also SEF (Search Engine Friendly) Urls ain't really that friendly, Google and Bing put little weight into the actual algorithm, since its a 'content signal' that with a good page can be found elsewhere, they used to be given a lot more weight but since most sites use it, its hardly a factor. URLS should be made for your users, not search engines.

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