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    Will implementing a 'Scroll to Div Anchor' cause a duplicate content issue?

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    • AdeLewis
      AdeLewis last edited by

      I have just been building a website for a client with pages that contain a lot of text content. To make things easier for site visitors I have created a menu bar that sticks to the top of the page and the page will scroll to different areas of content (i/e different Div id anchors)

      Having done this I have just had the thought that this might inadvertently introduce duplicate content issue.

      Does anyone know if adding an #anchor to the end of a url will cause a duplicate content error in google?

      For example, would the following URLs be treated as different:-

      http://www.mysite.co.uk/services
      http://www.mysite.co.uk/services#anchor1
      http://www.mysite.co.uk/services#anchor2
      http://www.mysite.co.uk/services#anchor3
      http://www.mysite.co.uk/services#anchor4

      Thanks.

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      • AndrewAkesson
        AndrewAkesson last edited by

        Everything after the # is ignored so this will not cause duplicate content issues. Crawlers will only see a single URL, i.e. http://www.mysite.co.uk/services

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        • AndrewAkesson
          AndrewAkesson last edited by

          Here's a good whiteboard Friday from the man himself: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-using-the-hash

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          • AdeLewis
            AdeLewis @AndrewAkesson last edited by

            Thanks Matt,

            Minor panic over!

            Cheers.
            Ade.

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