SEO Topic Clusters Busted After Redoing Navigation

cpopel24 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:50:19 GMT

Before redoing our website navigation (main website not hosted in HubSpot), our internal links from subtopics were all validated as linking to the core topic pillar page. All showed as "green". Some of those included links that went to an anchor section of the pillar page (ex. website.com/section/#sectiona). They were still validated.

After we redid our navigation, the whole thing busted and all of them are no longer validated and turned red.

Any insight as to what could've happened here? When I link to base pillar page URL (website.com/section), it will validate. But not when I add the anchor link.

Help!

Re: SEO Topic Clusters Busted After Redoing Navigation

Jnix284 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:48:20 GMT

Hi @cpopel24 I'm sorry to hear you've run into an issue with your subtopic validation!

I would've loved to see the "before" when they were validated using anchor links, it would be amazing if this was working successfully and to dig into the page code to see how it was configured to confirm the validation - from my experience, this hasn't been possible since the inception of the tool despite many attemps to configure internal links with an anchor.

This is confirmed in the internal link validation KB:

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SEO Topic Clusters Busted After Redoing Navigation

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