: Does Google value links to a page's named anchors (#) as equal to links to the page w/o the anchor? Occasionally my site gets links directly to a sub-section of a page via a named anchor,

@Pope3001725

It doesn't affect the rankings. That only helps the browser identify a portion of the page so it can properly display it when the page loads.

(If Google ever starts ranking portions of pages then it might come into play but for now that's just fun stuff to think about).

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