Skip to Link in Google Search

Hello,

I’m afraid this doesn’t sound like anything this plugin would cover.

Are you using anchor tag hash links (bookmark) links on your site? If so this is probably what Google is picking up on.

Oliver

Hi Oliver

I’m afraid I don’t know what an anchor tag hash link is??

I’ve created links from the home page using the block/pattern/portolio style (by copying and pasting the URL of the page I want to link to). Perhaps this was the wrong thing to do……in fact, each page has links created in this way to other pages.

Is there a better way to do it!!???

We’d need to see your site and an example of what to search for in Google to see what is causing what you are describing.

Here is an explanation of what a hash tag anchor link looks like.

Oliver

@domainsupport thanks for this, sounds like it’s not a theme issue or part of the remit for this plug in – therefore do you have a support email address you can be contacted; I might also have another WordPress question.

thank you!

@domainsupport having tried to digest the hash tag anchor info you kindly sent, I do think I have a number of these on the home page (in addition to my menu). But not sure how this affects the Google search and what it’s reading.

Do I need to alter the link configuration?

Hi,

I’m really sorry but due to WordPress forum guidelines we are not allowed to discuss contacting away from the forum.

Also, if you would like me to look at the links you have on your site then you will need to post a link to your website so I can look into this further.

Oliver

Of course, sorry @domainsupport, I was conscious of asking too many useless questions on this thread!

I’m thinking now that the Google search was saying ‘skip to content’ because I’d left the site titles blank in general settings of the WordPress dashboard. I’m now rectified this and suppose will only know next time the crawlers do their job. I’m not sure if the issue was links-related as you said. The site is https://www.2mpy.com

OK so I’m going to mark this as “resolved” now because it is indeed a theme thing rather than a plugin thing. What’s happening is that each page has …

<a class="skip-link screen-reader-text" href="#content">Skip to content</a>

… at the top which is hidden from normal view with …

.screen-reader-text {
height: 1px;
margin: -1px;
overflow: hidden;
}

So Google spiders are still able to pick up this text and add it to the search results.

I don’t think that this is meant to happen so it’s definitely worth reporting it as a potential theme issue to be rectified in a future theme update.

Oliver

@domainsupport that’s brilliant thank you. I will share this with the Twenty Twenty One Theme support as suggested.

Thanks for your help.