: Sitemap to display hash tag links or not? I am just creating sitemap for my site and wanted to find out if I should include # links for SEO? For Example: www.mydomain.com/#comment1 www.mydomain.com/#comment2

@Heady270

These answers pretty much cover it all but if you want a good list of best practice tips for both HTML and XML sitemaps for SEO have a look at this:
www.marketing-jive.com/2010/04/14-sitemap-best-practices-for.html

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@Candy875

No, you shouldn't include # links. They refer to the same page, and the sitemap is saying how often the page changes (as well as page structure).

In fact, your server won't get a request for the #. The browser, or crawler bot, requests the URL mydomain.com and then when it retrieves the page jumps to the part of the page with the id of comment1, say.

(With Ajax crawling it's a different matter, but you're probably not using that.)

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@Angie530

Your sitemap file is intended to list the individual documents/pages on your site, not anchors.
Doing this makes no real sense. If you did this, what would stop you from also including every other conceivable anchor link, eg. index.php#nav, index.php#sidebar?

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