Redirecting to Modal URLs

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi everyone!

Long time no chat - hope you're all well!

I have a question that for some reason is causing me some trouble. I have a client that is creating a new website, the process was a mess and I am doing a last minute redirect file for them (long story, for another time).

They have different teams for different business categories, so there are multiple staff pages with a list of staffers, and a link to their individual pages.

Currently they have a structure like this for their staff bios...

www.example.com/category-staff/bob-johnson/

But now, to access the staffers bio, a modal pops up. For instance...

www.example.com/category-staff/#bob-johnson

Should I redirect current staffers URLs to the staff category, or the modal URL? Unfortunately, we are late in the game and this is the way the bio pages are set up.

Would love thoughts, thanks so much guys!!

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Search engines won't index anchor URLs so that's not an option.

Does the staff category page have the bios loaded into the HTML on page load? If so, redirect to the staffers category page. If not, you need to come up with another solution (where the bio content is on a page(s) that can be indexed).

[EGOL]

Search engines won't index anchor URLs so that's not an option.

I agree.   And, I would try to redirect to a URL that the search engines already have in their index.