Hi,
Recently I have been seeing a rise in the number of single page websites, you know the ones that use
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and with a bit of jQuery to smooth the ride (scrolling) to that section.
Some of you may even have made one or two yourselves. I like some sites that I have seen and would like to try this approach but I do have some reservations about the SEO aspects.
As you know, search engines index single pages of websites and use the content as well as many other factors to rank that page according to the search string entered by the user. Single pages usually have content about a specific subject, however single page websites will have content about everything the website talks about.
Have you got any thoughts about how this may affect sites that need to get ranked highly in the search engines? Or, maybe you have got evidence to show this?