: Can we put more than one meta tag in a single page website? I have a one page website, but it has "about us" "contact us", "services", "forum", etc... so I am little confused on how I should

@Bryan171

The downside of a single page website is the SEO aspect. You are not allowed to use multiple META's for the same thing (multiple 'description' doesn't work).

This is the point where you have to reconsider how you want to proceed. Is it a simple personal website which doesn't have a attract too many people? Then this is fine.

If SEO is important, you could make seperate urls (/contact, /about-us, /services) and make those work.
Then load the remainder of the website via javascript and use techniques like window.pushState to change the url to the proper one.

There is plenty of documentation about this, a simple googlesearch (how to SEO a one page site): www.awwwards.com/seo-tricks-for-one-page-websites.html http://searchengineland.com/single-page-websites-seo-182506 codeboxr.com/blogs/is-single-page-one-page-website-bad-for-seo

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@Karen161

Yes! If you use one meta tag for different sections in a single page, it might affect your ranking for the section based keywords.

Meta tags are the easiest way to tell about your web page to Search Engines. If you have multiple meta tags like <title>, <description> in a single page it will confuse the Bot to consider which meta tags should be used in SERP and finally it will select the more appropriate one based on the page content Or it will select the first tag.
So you should not use same meta tags multiple times in a single page.


You can smartly mention about your page in your <title> and <description> like <About us|Contact us|Services|Forum>
The best practice is using individual pages for "About us", "Contact us","Services", "Forum". It will be more user friendly and it is the best way in SEO perspective.


For example:

If you do some service and If you have an individual page for that, you can write more content specifically about that service and you can use meta tags in that page. So users will like that page and Search Engines too.
But it's not possible if you have a single page with bunch of contents about different sections and having one meta tag for all these sections.

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