I am pretty sure I know the answer to this, but just want to double check. If a page is linked to with an anchor parameter, the "credit" for that link goes to the actual page itself, right? I think Google is smart enough to not separate it out as a different page, but just wanted to double check.
yes, you are right. if the anchor txt is given with anchor parameters , link goes to main page. this one and this one are the same urls for google
yeah try not to stress...you will get the credit for that link. Otherwise half of my blogs would be dying due to the link formats etc
yes to the page itself but to the portion of the page where you refer so from the PR side of view, there should be no difference if you add #, but for the SERPs, there may be