Hashtag url alternatives?

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Hi guys, thanks for reading.

I am no coder and iv noticed some potential coding issues on some of my internal pages, this happens i think when hashtag urls are used to jump around various parts of the page, some i think are not even being used.

This is the potential problem, each one of these claims the same url as the page.

<a href="#">Choose a Platform</a>

<a href="#user-review">Check out our review</a>

<a href="#" class="active">PS4</a>

<a href="#game-media-gallery"

<a href="#user-review"

<a href="#" class="prev">◄ Prev 6</a>

<a href="#" class="next">Next 6 ►</a>

<a href="#" class="nextBtn">Next ►</a>

<a href="#" class="active">PS4</a>

<a href="#game-videos">Images</a>

<a class="to-top" href="#page-top">Back to top</a>

Example of what the software showed, in image below, each one also has a canonical pointing to the same page..



Would be great to sort this, to my understanding this means that the same url is
on the same page 12 times, would this be correct?.

Thanks

Alex
#programming #alternatives #hashtag #url
  • It's not a problem.
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    • Thanks for the response, would you happen to know the reason why it was done this way, iv never seen it looking at other sites. I just got the impression it looks like spam to Google, i also cannot see the point why it would be needed.

      Alex
  • Navigation.
    Is there javascript on some of those links?
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    • I dont know mate to be honest, all coding work was done by designers, i just fill the content on the pages, add videos, images, and so on.
  • It really depends on the way website is designed, but generally that are links which points to name tags on your page. For example inside one page you have 10 different sections and each of the links, after click, will scroll your page directly to that section of the page.

    I wouldn't say it's used to be manipulated by Javascript, because developers usually using ID for some element on the page and after click on that element Javascript will do something...
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    • I am pretty sure they do as you suggested, i just figured it seemed like a bad approach using the same url as the page for multiple different keywords, i figured this could confuse google as to what that particular url was about.

      Thanks for all the help, i really do appreciate all and every response I get.

      Alex
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    Hashtag url alternatives?

    Hi guys, thanks for reading. I am no coder and iv noticed some potential coding issues on some of my internal pages, this happens i think when hashtag urls are used to jump around various parts of the page, some i think are not even being used.