Is this site structure going to kill link juice?
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This is a parallax type page and the navigation basically points you to the homepage every time. The sub-menu on the secondary pages only ushers you down the page to various topics. This design has concerned me for some time but I'd like another opinion.
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Ah, I see what you mean Alan and I'm inclined to agree. With the JS you mentioned, there's no risk of a user (or crawler) being taken away from the page itself, so no link would be passed and "diluted", as it were. Thanks for posting this!
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Thanks!
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I differ in thinking here on one point.
I believe that links pointing to the same page have the same decay as any other link. That page rank flows out of them just the same, obviously it goes to the same page but some of it is lost every time.
What I do and looks much better is use javascript to scroll to that spot,
$('html, body').animate({ scrollTop: $("#mytarget").offset().top - 70 }, 'slow');
This will scroll to your anchor, the offset lets you position things nice.Even if I am wrong, the scrolling animation looks and feels much better
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I think this could be happening because of the way Google interprets the - I tried it with the opening quote, but not the closing quote and it worked. Notice too that the text that's highlighted (or bolded) in the search result is everything up to the
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Yes, that is interesting. Strange.
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Interestingly if I search it without quotes it comes right up just fine.
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Thanks. That has been a big concern for me. We consolidated quite a few pages into one long page but our organic traffic has gone up so I guess so far so good? We are in the process of re-vamping our keywords and re-adjusting our content to match. I'm not sure if I should bring this up or not.
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Here is a text grab from the "products" section of that page....
SQL Sentry Performance Advisor is packed with ground-breaking features that are
When I search google for that text string in quotes.... the only thing that is found is a scraper and your adwords.
I converted some pages to one of these fancy pants formats and my longtail traffic into those pages tanked.
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Hi there
I see what you're getting at here, but there's no great cause for concern.
So, all of those hash links (#) are internal anchors. Link juice (specifically Page Rank) does not pass and is not lost with an internal anchor. It only passes on full links - like the text links you have to other pages on the homepage. It won't try to pass (and then fail) on any internal anchors - so link juice won't be "killed" by them, so to speak.
One thing you'll need to keep in mind is how people link to you externally. To ensure all of the "link juice" from an external site is passed to yours, make sure that they link to you without any internal anchors (basically, your URL without any of the #'s).
However, even then, my recent tests have shown that the majority of the strength (if not all) will pass anyway. Seems to me that Google at least treats these internal anchors very well and will recognise where to pass the "link juice" even if one is present in a URL.
So, from a strictly SEO and internal structure point of view, I don't think there's too much to be concerned about here. If it works for you user experience wise etc. I'd say keep it for sure.
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