/#:~:text=Example%20of%20text%20in%20a%20url%20from%20google%20serps.
And that results in a section of a page that looks like this:
Mueller continued:
“… anchors, as in links with #hashtags [*] – to link to a specific part of a page. You see that when you click on a link in the search results and it highlights a sentence (called “text fragments”). Sometimes this is used to report in Search Console in your performance report.
… That’s where these are from. They’re not indexed like that. I don’t love that there’s a mix of canonical & non-canonical URLs in the performance report, some savvy SEOs appreciate being able to separate them out though. It’s not a sign of a problem.”
Performance Reports With #Anchor URLs
That’s a useful thing to show the non-canonicalized #anchor URLs in the performance report because it shows that this special kind of deep link search result is sending traffic. The alternative is to find the statistics in the keyword reporting but that doesn’t indicate that the traffic was from a deep link to a page section, which this kind of reporting does show.
Read Mueller’s post here.
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