Backlinks to an anchor name URL: How Google sees them

[Tyler123]

I have been searching for the answer to this question and to my surprise have yet to find anything on the web.

This is my situation:

I have a form at the bottom of one of my pages and have another website that wants to link to this page, more specifically this form.  I have an anchor link on the page to this form already.  I was planning on sending the anchor name URL to the Webmaster to link to my page so their users will go straight to my form.

My question is: do I lose link juice to my URL from this link because it is an anchor name URL?

Does Google see this link that goes to a specific portion of my page to be less valuable than if I just linked to the plain URL?

Cheers

Sean

[rjonesx. 0]

AFAIK, Google does count the links towards page rankings. Moreover, Google may start to include the anchor in a rich snippet in the search results. I would defer to what is best for the User in terms of linking, and it seems like using #anchor is going to be the right thing in the long run.