Anchor links (not anchor text)

How do anchor links (i.e., with a # and text after it to take you to the middle of a page) factor into PageRank? Is there any difference in how they are treated vs. regular links?

I've seen other discussions that different URLs for the same page mean that the link popularity for for the alternate URLs is wasted. Is that true in this case as well?

do they show up in google as unique pages?
i have never used them or never really noticed them showing up in the serps.

if they do show up then...yes...they are weakening the pagerank of the page as a ext. link would. the newly created page reference [the anchor ref] is tapping pagerank from the core page pr.

if they dont show up in serps...then i would worry about it.

Thanks.

I'm pretty sure they don't show up in search engine results. How could they? They don't have their own titles, descriptions, etc.

Besides, I have a lot of pages with high ranks on various keywords, but none of the anchor-link pseudo-pages have ever shown up at all.

On the other hand -- the standard way to link to a blog is to an article part way down the page, not the top of the page. And some blogs certainly get high PR!!!!!

I use that a lot and They have never been picked up as separate pages or internal links for that matter.

So it's as if they weren't there? No good effect, no bad effect?

I wonder if google counts the clickable text as anchor text? That would be a benefit. I'm guessing that it is just like any other anchor text.

It doesn't count the anchor because you can easily SPAM the engine with one page and 1000s of anchor links to every word on that page. It would be a mess.

-PK

but google does take into account internal anchor text. I think just once per per link per/page. It comes into the algo somewhere roght?

I dont think it would because it's not spidering it just jumping around the page. If Google actually followed thos links than it would miss important prts of the pages. It just reads it from top to bottom and discards the anchor. How can you split your page's PR unto itself?

-PK

BTW for anchor links to another page than it's just treated like anyother link counted once per page as googler mentioned. ;)

My post above is about same page anchor links.

-PK

I knew that! now it all makes sense. That's right.

OK. Page B has three links to Page A. Different anchor text (one sense of "anchor"), different URLs (the other sense of "anchor").

Which link's texts get counted? The first one?

I've read that Google pays attention to the first one it runs into and ignores the rest. Since Google reads from top to bottom than the first one in the HTML.

-PK

Thanks!

Also note that with onpage anchor you are allowing a different variable which is another excuse for your KW so it can help your density regardless if it is followed as a link or not. Also I am a firm believer that Google likes diversity in their pages so if you ahve your KW in h1 h2 P onpage anchor <a> title etc then it will notice the theme and the more "different" places G sees that kw the more important they should find it I said "should" lol