Does using a hash menu system drive SEO power to my sub-pages?

[adamorn]

My website (a large professional one) uses a interesting menu system.  When a user hovers over text (which is not clickable), then a larger sub-menu appears on the screen, when they hover over something else, then this sub-menu changes or disappears.   This menu is driven by a hash(#), which makes me wonder.  I this giving my sub-pages an SEO kick?

Or... is there another way that we should be doing this in order to get that SEO kick?

[LoganRay]

You should avoid using anchor links (hash URLs) as primary navigation or URL structure. Google won't index them individually, since they're technically just another part of the same root page.

They can serve a purpose for usability, but this case isn't one of them.

[adamorn]

Unfortunately my site has implemented the menu system across the site this way.

Does the sub-menu items (which are links that appear on hover) get an SEO boost?

Any ideas on how to 'correct' this menu system to optimize for SEO?  Basically... is there anything I can do to convert this implementation into something that would be optimized appropriately?

[LoganRay]

I've never used a CMS that does anchor links by default, so unfortunately I won't be of much help in offering a solution. I would try to fix this in the back-end of the CMS though, as it's not going to help SEO in anyway if all your content lives at the same root URL. You should aim for one (indexable) URL for each piece of content as recommended here by John Mueller.

[Everett]

I think we'll need to see the site in order to provide any meaningful and specific advice in this case.