how many pages in a website?

minimum pages for Google to notice

[macneil]

If a website is only one page but has good material on it will Google pick it up? If not how many pages would Google consider the minimum? I've seen one page websites show up high in some search strings but not too often so wondering how much importance Google puts on the amount of pages in your website.

[rfgdxm1]

Of course. Also, remember Google only indexes pages, not websites.

[deejay]

minimum pages required: one. :)

I believe the reason that you might not see single page sites show up too often has more to do with the difficulty of getting other sites to link to them than with the number of pages on the site itself.

[rfgdxm1]

>I believe the reason that you might not see single page sites show up too often has more to do with the difficulty of getting other sites to link to them than with the number of pages on the site itself.

This would explain a lot. People tend to link to the most authoratative sites on a topic. Rarely is a single page site going to be very authoratative. And, if the topic is so narrow a single page site could do it (say, one that told the history of a TV show cancelled after 6 episodes), then surely the topic is so non-competitive doing well in the SERPs should be trivial.

[andreasfriedrich]

You might not need a page at all. Make sure that the server returns a 200 OK status code when Google requests the URL. Your non-existing page may then be found for queries for words in the anchor text in links to your non-existing page.

Beware that I´m not sure how Google treats a resource that returns 200 OK but has a content-length of 0.

Andreas

[caine]

andreas,

I think a 200 with a 0 content count gets gray barred though is in the db as a url. Not 100% sure. G Mods may know better.

Certainly as minimum's go, there is no such thing, but its all dependant on content, one page per keyterm target, is optimum, though takes a hell of a long time to get good enough to get to a postition of targetting less than 15-20 keyterms, never mind one. Involves very precise planning in the design of the site, and the upmost adherance to not crossing theme's or create SE readable multi-branch terminolgy.

In a perfect world, obviously its possible, in the real world, extremely hard though if you work with your logs, then you can just constantly increase the scope of the site to accomadate all KW's while maximising SERP positioning on each and every one.