Why Use a TOC?
For webmasters and bloggers who write lengthy articles and divide the article in several sub-sections, the readers may find it difficult reading such long posts without a friendly navigation. The only solution to better present long, lengthy articles is displaying a "Table Of Contents."
TOC is one such feature that you often see on Wikipedia pages to provide easy navigation for long Articles. Wikipedia loves adding a TOC because it helps the readers to jump from one section to another easily.
Is TOC Plugin SEO Friendly?
A TOC gives a basic summary to search engines of what your article is all about. The anchor links inside a TOC offers an added benefit to your SEO efforts. Google loves anchor links and especially when these links are meaningful and provide better navigation and understanding of your blog content.
The contents list generated using TOC plugin is SEO friendly. Anchor links inside it are easily crawled and indexed by search robots. See the image below taken from our last blog post:
