Does Google index url with hashtags?

[seoppc2012]

We are setting up some Jquery tabs in a page that will produce the same url with hashtags. For example: index.php#aboutus, index.php#ourguarantee, etc.

We don't want that content to be crawled as we'd like to prevent duplicate content.

Does Google normally crawl such urls or does it just ignore them?

Thanks in advance.

[ak1lz]

the search operator "inurl:#" did not return any results.

check to make sure that your URLs follow the RFC-3986 standard for URIs. This document (recomended by Google) might give insight on using the # (Number Sign)

If you arne't trying to create a uniform resource indentifier, but just a uniform resource locator.. this site may help: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm

Hope this helps, and if your question was answered please mark as answered

[Tre]

URL fragments (the part after the pound sign) are not included in the Google index. See this webmaster thread for confirmation from Google Engineer John Mu: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/webmasters/crawling-indexing--ranking/C0BTQOzy46U.

[Druva]

You could always filter them out via Webmaster's tools.

Here's Google's official docs on it. http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1235687

[AAPanalytics]

Hi All,
It looks like Google has setup a nice dev site and FAQ page to go over the options here especially when using AJAX and hash tags to link to that content.https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/faq#whereinresults.

It looks as if Google will be able to index the content of the entire page (hidden and initially shown) and not create a separate URL if you use a ! before the #. I'd read up on that FAQ page, and play with site commands on the Google dev site.