Are links to on-page content crawled / have any effect on page rank?

[anthematic]

Lets say I have a really long article that begins with links to <a name="something">anchors on the same page.</a>

<a name="something"></a>

<a name="something">E.g.,</a> Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc, allowing the user to scroll down to different content.

There are also other links on this page that link to other pages.

A few questions:

Googlebot arrives on the page. Does it crawl links that point to anchors on the same page?

When link juice is divided among all the links on the page, do these links count and page rank is then lost?

Thanks!

[ClickConsult]

Hi Anthematic,

Google does recognize these anchors, see this blog post from the Google blog detailing a search snippet for in-page anchors, you may have seen them in the SERPs before:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/jump-to-information-you-want-right-from.html

In reply to your second question, yes, they will be counted.

[anthematic]

Hey, thanks for the quick answer. So this means Googlebot can waste some of its crawl budget on these links?

[Vahe.Arabian]

Google wouldn't waste budget. It just means they will have to consider crawling more internal links for a page.