Question

I’m building a page using “:target” pseudo-selectors linking to different content and resulting in bookmarkable hash-marked “pages”
For example:

<ul class="menu">
  <li><a href="#home">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="#history">History</a></li>
  <li><a href="#news">News</a></li>
</ul>
<div class="pages">  
  <div id="home">...</div>
  <div id="history">...</div>
  <div id="news">...</div>
</div>

I’m wondering how this affects page hits and search engine ranking, compared to links to unique pages. I assume as long as the href is to content on the same page, it only counts as one hit. True?

Answer 1

You still need to call _trackPageview if you want to register these as different page hits. Google Analytics will not automatically capture these events and will treat it as a single page otherwise.