SEO for Parallax Website

[National-Homebuyers]

Hi,

Are there any implications of having a parallax website and the URL not changing as you scroll down the page? So basically the whole site is under the same URL? However, when you click on the menu the URL does change?

Cheers

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Aron,

None at all - you just can't attract as many keywords as you can with a site that has multiple pages. As a stand-alone, I have had some very nice successes with single page sites, but you need to be content and message heavy. Keep everything on topic be creative with your writing. Don't try to over-optimise either.

-Andy

[National-Homebuyers]

Hi Andy

Wouldn't this cause issues with duplicate content as you have got the same content on several URLs? So basically the URL for the homepage has all the content on it and then when you click on a link on the main nav it is the exact same content on a different URL?

Thanks

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Aron,

I think I have misunderstood your question. Apologies for that.

It sounds like a bit of tweaking is required for the menu. Is the site built in Wordpress? I have encountered this as well and I had to set the menu links to custom URL's and then add some code to the .htaccess file as well.

Are you able to give an example of the URL after you click a link? If should (I assume) scroll down to that part of the page instead? PM me here if you wish and I will be happy to take a look.

-Andy

[National-Homebuyers]

Hi Andy,

When you click on the menu link it does indeed scroll down to that part of the website. However, when you scroll up the page onto a different section the URL stays the same. The title tags and meta descriptions are the same across the site no matter what page you are on.

Cheers

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Can you PM me the URL Aron? I could do with seeing exactly what is going on.

-Andy

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Aron

This prior question has a really great answer as well as this one.

In short, it depends how many keywords / topics you're targeting. It can work fine for a "one-topic" site but if you'd normally be targeting separate keywords for several or more pages, that's where you'll run into SEO trouble.

[Carla_Dawson]

Hi Aron,

There are 3 solutions for Parallax websites to make them SEO friendly. Read Here

http://moz.com/blog/parallax-scrolling-websites-and-seo-a-collection-of-solutions-and-examples