/#more-ID appears in URL string

  • I have noticed that when readers scrolling the news index on my site click “more” to read an article “/#more-ID” appears on the end of the article URL string.
    A few questions:-
    1. Is this damaging for SEO and indexing?
    2. Why does it happen now? (we recently installed a sitemap plug-in could that be it?).
    3. How do we stop this happening as it looks messy if nothing else.

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  • 1. No.

    2. You switched to, or updated, a theme that makes use of the ‘more’ link.

    3. Use another theme or edit your current theme’s template files.

    It’s also an anchor though, so when users click the more link they are taken to the relevant position in the post once the full article is displayed, else the page just loads straight at the top.

    If the excerpt/intro you show on the main/prior page is also part of the opening content for the full article the user will then have to scroll down and/or scan the article to find where they reached before having to click the “more” link.. with the anchor this automatically positions their screen at the continuing point of the article.

    Just something to consider before removing it.. ??

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