How to SEO a Single-Page website

How to SEO a Single-Page website - .htaccess files are extremely useful in many cases for users who either do not have root permissions or for users who simply aren't comfortable in making changes in their web server's configuration file. Trying to debug .htaccess not working isn't always the easiest thing to do, however, hopefully by checking the discuss below mentioned about seo, , , , .htaccess common problems as well as the troubleshooting tips, you'll have a better grasp on what you may have to modify to get your .htaccess file running smoothly.Problem :


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 a company that imports a lot of products from different companies. So it will be a bit of a showcase of the different types of products / equipment you can order. Of the whole catalog only maybe 10 products are actually shown.



Now I have the basic structure with sections and links like:




#home / #products / #equipment / #services / #contact.




Now from what I understand is that Google does not index links containing #, so there will be no problem of duplicate content, everything will be indexed as the frontpage.



Now what I want to optimize is searching. This company is agent of some product in the country, meaning only they have the permission to import and sell that product. This means that when somebody searches for product x, this website pops up as the first hit.



Now can I make it that they will be automatically brought to the #products part of the website directly from google.



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


Solution :

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.



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.




  1. Paginate the content

  2. Make a good css for spiders

  3. Seek authority - BUILD STRONG LINKS !!!

  4. H1 tags !

  5. Be best on readability

  6. Keep it fresh



More on http://www.awwwards.com/seo-tricks-for-one-page-websites.html



The google algorithm is updated alot and we can't find the secret key.



https://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/



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:
http://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


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.

Additionally, if you would like to do some further testing, give the htaccess tester tool a try. It allows you to specify a certain URL as well as the rules you would like to include and then shows which rules were tested, which ones met the criteria, and which ones were executed.

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