: SEO impact of converting a small site to a single page with scrollable sections I have to redesign a website that has many sections with different URLs: Home, Contact, Services, Who are we?,
I have to redesign a website that has many sections with different URLs: Home, Contact, Services, Who are we?, etc.
I want to put them all into just one scrollable index page, with a menu in which I could slide smoothly to the section I want (like most of the new company websites).
The problem is that I read that if I am going to stop using some URLs, I have to keep the file but redirecting them to the page where I moved the information in with protocol 301. So in this case I am guessing that I have to redirect all the pages to only one page.
Is that how it’s supposed to be done? I feel like it might hurt the positioning in Google to have only one actual page and the others redirecting to it. What else do I have to keep in mind with this kind of changes?
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You can deal with this in many ways.
Method 1:
You can design long home page with the original home page content, minimum info about: about us, services, contact us with a link to their dedicated page. By doing this you can achieve long scrolling page and you can maintain dedicated pages and ranking.
Method 2:
You can design long home page with the home page content and other pages which might not have much ranking like: about, contact etc. And you can leave dedicated pages for those URLs where you had the ranking like: services (Assuming you had ranking).
Redirection 301:
You should be fine to redirect general pages to the home page. It may not be recommended to redirect those pages which might have significant ranking unless you plan to address differently.
One way would be to use anchors.
On your page you place an anchor something like this <div><a id="example"></a>Our About Us Page</div> the anchor will be invisible on the page.
A link to it looks like <a href="index.php#about">About Us</a> or if jumping within a page just <a href="#about">About Us</a>
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