Google Reassures That #Anchor URLs In GSC Are Okay

Google John Mueller explained why Google Console is sometimes shown by the URL with hashtags in the performance reports and explained that there is no need to worry about being indexed in the wrong URL.

URL -Ons with #anchor Hashtags

What John Mueller discussed in the Bluesky Post -are URL -ovi with hashtags that look like this:

https:example.com/example-url/#:~:text=

The hashtags URL is shown in Google’s search console (GSC) could create the impression that Google Indexes the wrong URL, but according to John Mueller, this is not the case.

Some reports use canon url -ve

He wrote that some GSC reports show the canonical URL. This means that Google will report one URL, even if there are more versions of the same recording of the URL for that report, probably like an indexing of the report.

Mueller wrote:

“From time to time, someone posts about finding” hashtagova “(URL -IVO SIKHORS) in the search console. Here is what is (and none of that is new). Most of the search features report on the Kanon URL (Main URL -used for indexing), a handful not.

Some URL -Ons are logged in with #anchors (hashtags)

Mueller then said that a performance report shows the URL with #anchors, which are also called the URL with hashtags. These are the links from Google’s search results that lead to a particular page section.

Part of the URL -A could look like this:

/#:~:text=Example%20of%20text%20in%20a%20url%20from%20google%20serps.

And that results in a part of a page that looks like this:

Mueller continued:

“… anchor, as in relationships with #hashtags [*] – to connect with a particular part of the page. You see that when you click on the relationship in the search results, it emphasizes the sentence (called “text fragments”). Sometimes this is used to report in a search console in your performance report.

… from there they are. They are not indexed like that. I do not like that in the performance report there is a mixture of canonical and non-channe URLs, some smart SEOs prices to be able to separate them. This is not a sign of a problem. “

Performance reports with #anchor URL

It is useful to show the non-channeized URL #anchor in the performance report because it shows that this special type of deep-bonding scores sends traffic. The alternative is to find statistics in the reporting of key words, but this does not indicate that traffic was from a deep connection to the page section, which this type of reporting shows.

Read Mueller’s post here.

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