What does Google think of single-page websites? They are becoming more complex and there are some great websites using only a single page (+lots of CSS and JavaScript) bringing the same user experience as a regular website with many subpages.
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It's always best to hv multi page websites for seo. Still holds good for 2018
WHAT??? You're not running for office, man! Answer the f*ing question!
Google needs to be more specific with answers – and even better if they go a bit technical (infographically) to represent what's happening actually. This kind of political statement left the question unanswered altogether
Google may not have visibility to your site if it is very javascript heavy.
Try this – Google the following and tell me how many pages are returned in the search results.
site:http://www.madewithangular.com
The answer is 1 page even though, there are upwards of 500+ pages. The reason being is that google does not run the javascript and index the various page states.
You can use a pr-rendering proxy service to alleviate this issue and allow search engines to index all the "pages" in single page applications.
Macgyver has such a utility.
[macgyver | Page Render](https://askmacgyver.com/explore/program/fetch-rendered-page/10X2z6e5E)
If you have any questions feel free to email me directly.
tim@askmacgyver.com
Now if you don't want to fully pre-render the page you could leverage the SEO crawler structured javascript data layer. The idea here is you take the page content and present it neatly as a javascript data layer object.
This looks like the following –
<script id="structured_data" type="application/ld+json">
{
"Page_Type": "",
[…]
}
</script>
You can then verify your structured data is in place and working correctly. [This is an example](https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool?hl=es-AR#url=https%3A%2F%2Faskmacgyver.com%2Fblog%2Ftutorial%2Fhow-to-setup-a-fully-automated-gulp-build-workflow%3F_escaped_fragment_%3D) of a page we have which utilizes structured data layers.
Hello Sir,
Thankyou for this video,
I have a question,
1.what should i do for content managing and keywords for different services? when I have a single page website.
2. which are those major points should remember when i m writing content for it, and researching keyword for different services and menus.
3. How google get crawl a single web page , how google display the content of a single page/
4. what is the keyword density should i follow for my meta-keyword tags for a single page website?
Thanks for Your explanation
I just converted my website into a single page. I created meta tags for each page and one i had my single page site finished i inserted all the meta tags into the bottom of the page. I used a meta tag generator to create the same tags into code form and inserted it into the head of my website. I hope it works.
I hate parallax scrolling.
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That for the most part it works well as well leaves up a lot of questions. what is the other part or the catches than?
this is a very stuppid man. the question is an explanation of google's bullshit
Very poor answer.
Does anyone know how we can submit our questions to be answered on this show?
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Java?
Let's all hamstring web development because Google can't keep up….
nice
Matt: "If you run a test and you're pretty happy with it, I don’t necessarily see a problem
It is true that some web pages is containing only one page. A website should contain several pages and then it could be used easily.
I have commented on videos.
I have commented on videos
That is probably one of the worst domains I have read in a long time, sorry but it is way to long lol.
Matt: "If you run a test and you're pretty happy with it, I don’t necessarily see a problem with that".
I'd bet A LOT of people aren't happy with this answer. I wish Matt would expound his answers even more.
What test is this supposed to be? I can't think of a specific test that works for this scenario, and there's no clearly prominent section for any such test that I can find in webmaster tools.
I think that this could have been answered in two sentences: "View your site in a text-based browser, like lynx. If your content isn't reachable there, then that will impact user and search engines alike."
What Google thinks and what works are two different things. Remember neither Matt Cutts or Google owns the Internet.
It's one of the tools as part of Google's Webmaster Tools. Which they link at the end of every single video.
google.com/webmasters/
What is this test?????
we should call you the white version of barack obama.
There are so many variables involved in answering questions that *seem* simple on the surface, many times it's not possible to give direct answers
Yes we can think Google will love the page, but like he said it has to be tested… for example there will be 1 only title tag … in opposition to tens or more pages with a normal website.
and the answer is ….