Using named anchors to identify sections on your pages

I've made some longer pages eg BeSeenOnABike.com info site which I'm going to transfer to BeSeenOnABike.co.uk soonest. Must remember to use the named anchors and include a table of contents.

source: Google Webmaster blogUsing named anchors to identify sections on your pages

Friday, September 25, 2009 at 12:29 PM

We just announced a couple of new features on the Official Google Blog that enable users to get to the information they want faster. Both features provide additional links in the result block, which allow users to jump directly to parts of a larger page. This is useful when a user has a specific interest in mind that is almost entirely covered in a single section of a page. Now they can navigate directly to the relevant section instead of scrolling through the page looking for their information.

To increase the chances that they might appear on your pages:-

1. ensure that long, multi-topic pages on your site are well-structured and broken into distinct logical sections. 
2. Ensure that each section has an associated anchor with a descriptive name (i.e., not just "Section 2.1")
3. Ensure your page includes a "table of contents" which links to the individual anchors. 

The new in-snippet links only appear for relevant queries, so you won't see it on the results all the time — only when we think that a link to a section would be highly useful for a particular query.

Posted by Raj Krishnan, Snippets Team