Google: Stop Using URL Fragments

Feb 22, 2017 - 8:13 am 57 by

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Google wants you to stop using URL fragments for your content. Google's John Mueller said this on Twitter this morning, "I'd recommend moving away from using them [URL fragments] for content in general too." This is in response to someone asking if the fetch as Google tool will eventually support rendering such URLs.

Here are the tweets:

This is not really new news but this is a good reminder - don't build new sites with this solution and consider updating sites that are using it.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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