Can use of the id attribute to anchor t text down a page cause page duplication issues?
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I am producing a long glossary of terms and want to make it easier to jump down to various terms.
I am using the<a id="anchor-text" ="" attribute="" so="" am="" appending="" #anchor-text="" to="" a="" url="" reach="" the="" correct="" spot<="" p=""></a>
<a id="anchor-text" ="" attribute="" so="" am="" appending="" #anchor-text="" to="" a="" url="" reach="" the="" correct="" spot<="" p="">Does anyone know whether Google will pick this up as separate duplicate pages?</a>
<a id="anchor-text" ="" attribute="" so="" am="" appending="" #anchor-text="" to="" a="" url="" reach="" the="" correct="" spot<="" p="">If so any ideas on what I can do? Apart from not do it to start with? I am thinking 301s won't work as I want the URL to work. And rel=canonical won't work as there is no actual page code to add it to.
Many thanks for your help
Wendy</a>
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Great, many thanks guys - I will keep going with what I was intending to do!
Wendy
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whispering
IMO these on-page anchor links are almost as powerful in optimization as a title tag.
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Google won't have any problem with this setup and won't view URLs like /glossary#a, /glossary#b as duplicate content. You should be fine.
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