singe page site - google indexing problem

[simonGG]

Hi there,

i developed a single page site where the sections of the site are pages within processwire.
For example imagine this case: I have 3 sections about, work, contact. So i created 3 templates and 3 pages.
Now in my home.php i include them - so far so good.

Thus i get www.page/about, www.page/work, www.page/contact ... and google is indexing this urls.
I don't want that to happen because they content only works within the home where the css and js is loaded.

What can i do? Can i simply disallow them in a robots.txt like: Disallow: /about/  ... or will this be a SEO killer?

Thanks in advance & cheers Simon

[FrancisChung]

robots.txt is a good start, but it may not stop some crawlers from crawling your pages anyway.

Have you tried hiding your other pages / templates?

[LostKobrakai]

Disallowing /about/ is probably not a good idea. /about/ should load the correct content inside your single page app.

[simonGG]

@FrancisChung
hidding is not realy a option for me because in my setup they musst be visible.

 

@LostKobrakai
hmm when i disallow /about/ in robots.txt - it's only hidden for crawler or?
I mean i can still include the contents in my home cause home isent hidden anyway?  

cheers Simon

 

[LostKobrakai]

Yeah, but google would also only index a single page. If that's what you want then go for it.

[Robin S]

10 hours ago, simonGG said:

hidding is not realy a option for me because in my setup they musst be visible.

You mean you want the pages that are rendered as part of Home to be accessible at /about/, /work/, etc, to human visitors but not to Google? That seems odd, especially if they don't display properly without the CSS/JS from the Home template.

I think you do want to prevent direct access to those pages. This thread has some techniques for achieving that: