One Page Sites?

Olson Mino

12 years ago

I'm not sure what you want to know exactly but I would say that it's hard to rank them if there is competition...

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Tech19

12 years ago

Yeah it depends on if you are trying to rank in Google, or just using paid traffic sources or other ways of promotion. I use them all the time, but not sure what you mean exactly.

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Bguk73

12 years ago

I did a single page website for my dad selling monocles and took over 3k in the first year. Not a lot of money but then I did not think single page websites worked at all! The strange thing is for me it would still make me a bit worried if I were to think about buying from a single page site!

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myob

12 years ago

I'm not sure just how viable a one page site would be, but certainly 3-5 page websites can be an excellent model in heavily competitive niches. Most of my own sites are typically this size, with massive traffic driven through alternative marketing channels.

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Brendan Mace

12 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

I'm not sure just how viable a one page site would be, but certainly 3-5 page websites can be an excellent model in heavily competitive niches. Most of my own sites are typically this size, with massive traffic driven through alternative marketing channels.

myob, I would LOVE to hear your strategies on getting traffic through alternative marketing channels. I've always relied on organic traffic through google. I don't know how you guys do it.

Press releases???

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myob

12 years ago

Originally Posted by co2

myob, I would LOVE to hear your strategies on getting traffic through alternative marketing channels. I've always relied on organic traffic through google. I don't know how you guys do it.

Press releases???

Indeed, press releases are included as part of my marketing. Other methods are discussed here. Read the entire thread, which includes additional ideas for effective marketing channels currently being used successfully. If you're just using Google, you're missing over 99.99% of potential traffic; it is comparatively irrelevant IMHO.

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MediaEncounterOmar

12 years ago

1 page websites for google = HORRIBLE. google likes content and accessibility if there spiders only crawl one of your web pages cause you only have one it looks very spammy to them.

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hdavies

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MediaEncounterOmar

1 page websites for google = HORRIBLE. google likes content and accessibility if there spiders only crawl one of your web pages cause you only have one it looks very spammy to them.

Agreed, especially if you don't update the one page you have. I suppose if you have a huge amount of content on that one page you could have a chance.

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HairyPoppins

12 years ago

If you're trying to rank don't bother however, if you want a landing page for something then sure that'll work fine.

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Softlayone

12 years ago

1 page sites could be very good if you can get decent refferal traffic (from sources like YouTube, Facebook, etc...). I wouldn't rely on search engines traffic in such sites.

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asad1912

12 years ago

PPC would be the best way to go as since the latest panda update 'thin' sites and one paged sites are left with no credibility.
no credibility=no ranking

your best way to go would be ppc advertising
Again, Adwords isn't the best way to go for such a thin site
Ms's adCenter is pretty good for this as they welcome single page or squeeze page sites with arms wide open(from what I know, and I could be wrong

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espresso

12 years ago

i tried a couple a tried to rank them in google
I failed
They were exact match domains which low competition
But no good.

They did however rank in Bing/Yahoo

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SteveMcCormick

12 years ago

It depends what the functionality and purpose of your site is, although even the most basic sites need a privacy policy, contact page, site map, etc..

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Zeus66

12 years ago

Some of these responses are by people who don't know what they're talking about. Sorry, but it's true.

Yes, a site with only one page of real content can rank and rank high. I have several at #1 to prove it. This is after Panda, even. There are 2 keys. First, the content must be really good and useful to your visitors. Second, the keyword you target needs to be very low competition.

The trick is finding keywords that have very little competition but still get a decent number of searches. They're out there if you know how to find them.

And be sure to have a good privacy policy, terms, and contact page.

John

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JamesMcCaferty

12 years ago

I've heard that "You can't use one page sites with Google Adwords" Can anyone confirm this?

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