Hey y'all welcome to another WordPress Wednesday. My name is Kori Ashton
here at WebTegrity in San Antonio, TX.
It is another wonderful WordPress Wednesday!
Today we are going to talk a little bit about SEO
and specifically, "Is a single page website better
or ok for SEO v.s. multiple pages on websites?"
We're seeing more and more trending
of these single page beautiful, dynamic, cool, kind of infinity scrolling
websites out there (those templates that you can purchase.)
Really, they're spectacular but are they good for SEO?
We're getting those questions quite a bit so
I just want to address that a little bit today.
It's going to be a short-quick tutorial
kind of walk you through some different ideas
when it comes to kind of the best practices, right?
So is it good to have a one page,
or is it good to do multiple pages?
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Okay, so let's talk about it.
I'm going to slide off the screen just so you can see this.
This is one of our websites that we designed.
This is a single page website. So let's just say, let's click on 'Who We Are."
See how we kind of scroll down the page here?
'What We Do'- you kind of scroll down (there's that.)
If you just keep scrolling, here's the 'How We Do It,'
'Our Agenda Is Your Success,'
and we kind of just keep scrolling down.
Very typically all the content stays on one page.
Then you can go back up to the top.
Some of these templates though do have these themes;
do have the opportunity to have a blog.
So when you click on 'Blog' you can come down here;
see the most recent blog articles (click) and then you're moving into
the website and kind of going in and seeing more "pages."
This would be a post of course, right?
So, is this option good for SEO (putting all your content down one page)?
You're contact information-your bios?
Especially if you don't have a whole lot of content-
is it better just to put it all on one page?
So the quick answer to that is, It's not necessarily "better"
it's not necessarily bad either though.
So here's what I want you to think about,
what type of industry are you involved in?
Is your industry saturated (in other words are you in like the insurance industry,)
are you in lawyers-the legal field, are you in something with medical?
Those industries are saturated with a lot of content.
But if you're in an industry that's a very tiny niche,
you might be able to get away with doing a single page website.
What you want to remember is that Google
is looking on your website to find the best possible content
for something that the person is searching for, right?
So it's not necessarily the fact that Google looks at your website and says,
"I don't like your website so I'm not going to present it or rank it high."
It's that Google looks at your website and says, "Is this the best possible information
for the search that was just performed?"
So they're weighing out all of your content.
They're looking at every single page; every single post on your website
if you're allowing them to.
So a website like ours (over here at WebTegrity)
that offers a lot of content on the homepage;
that offers an inside service page as you click in and go further into the website.
Then you click here again and go further into the website
and see that we have all these different options available for you.
You can go in and see our portfolio.
There's our 'Pace Counseling Group' that we were just talking about.
Get to see what it looks like to have all this content.
Basically, Google's robots will go through and crawl the whole website
so that when somebody does a search for 'WordPress' in San Antonio,
they're going to be able to present WebTegrity's website, right?
It might be a little more difficult to be presenting something
that's a single page as Google might look at the weight of it
and the authority of it and say "It's not necessarily the best information possible
so I'm going to present somebody else or rank somebody else higher than you."
So all that said to say, you also have some options for adding in social media.
So if you're advertising on social media and you're sending a lot of traffic to
your website, that will of course boost your website, right?
If you want to learn more and more about SEO,
I'm going to put another link right here to another free option that I have for you.
I'll put a link in the description box below
to a course that I have online that you can checkout for SEO.
You can learn all about
how to make Google fall in love with your WordPress website. Alright.
I hope this has helped. It's just a really quick tutorial
on is a single page website okay for SEO v.s. multiple pages.
Again my short answer is, I prefer to see multiple pages
so that you can have different links at the top; different URL's for each and
every page so that you can hopefully grow your website and kind of build
all the information that's there to allow Google to see you as a bigger and better
authority on the subject or
on the services that you offer.
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