: How to SEO a Single-Page website I am creating a new website for a client, and I think a single page website / layout will be pretty neat. There is not that much detailed content, it is

@Annie201

While a single page site may improve relevancy for primary keywords you're more likely to dilute relevancy for sub topics and terms that might rank easier on individual pages. Consider Hummingbird - If one page contains diluted information the page will become less relevant and will be impossible to optimise for any one section. I would not recommend optimising for a single site but to instead build out the 5 pages separately.

If you're going to optimise for a single page site I'd recommend the following:


Make sure the content sections are defined and H tags are well optimised
Place each section of content inside it's own DIV
Make sure DIV IDs are keyword optimised
Create Anchor links for each section of the site
Make sure each main title is wrapped in a H1 tag.

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@Moriarity557

Google has changed, now you can be #1 in google with one page very well.
Now are many articles about that, I found one that I liked very much , but are many more.

You kinda need to do little things that will count.


Paginate the content
Make a good css for spiders
Seek authority - BUILD STRONG LINKS !!!
H1 tags !
Be best on readability
Keep it fresh


More on www.awwwards.com/seo-tricks-for-one-page-websites.html
The google algorithm is updated alot and we can't find the secret key.
www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/

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@Rivera981

You can have accesible/indexable pages of each section as an alternative version of your webapp.
In your situation you need to have this pages:
Home,
Products,
Equipment,
Services,
Contact

When javascript isn't enabled you need to have 5 pages. Each page need to have specific title and show specific section to user (not the others).
When javascript is enabled you can load your webapp.

Fot big projects you should look this project:
www.asual.com/swfaddress/
(seo example includes datasource.php to do what i have told)

Example:

Home: /

<nav><stong>Home</strong> <a href="/products">Products</a>...</nav><div id="webapp">Home static content</div><script>window.onload=function(){
/*load webapp*/
}</script>

Products: /products

<nav><a href="/">Home</a> <stong>Products</strong>...</nav> <div id="webapp">Products static content</div><script>window.onload=function(){
/*load webapp*/
}</script>


etc

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@Pope3001725

Single page websites are bad for SEO. Period.

Since search engines rank web pages and not websites you need to make sure each web page is tailored towards a specific topic so it optimized to rank well for that topic. Putting more then one topic on a page dilutes that page's value for each topic and thus hurts its chances of ranking for both topics. It gets worse as you add more topics to that page. It also isn't useful for users since they have to sift through content they're not interested in to find the content they are looking for.

Additonally, internal links are valuable tools for SEO. They're almost as good incoming links from external sites and their anchor text does have value. Having a single page website means you are missing out on them.


I was thinking of something like having google index the different sections as different pages. Is something like that possible?


No.

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