SEO for a one-page website

Pick one main search

A one-page site has one title and one description, so it can only lead with one idea. Choose the search you most want to be found for:

• A person: your name plus what you do ("Sam Rivera, illustrator").
• A local business: the service plus the place ("bike repair in Leith").
• A product or event: its name plus what it is.

Write the rest of the page for the people searching that phrase, and mention related words naturally where they fit.

Write the title and description

Google's guidance is to give every page a descriptive, concise title and to avoid vague text like "Home" or "Profile". Long titles get cut off in results, so put the important words first.

The meta description is a summary of the page. Google says it mostly builds the snippet from the page content, but may use the meta description when it describes the page better.

• Title: "Bike repair in Leith | Spoke & Chain"
• Description: "Same-day bike repairs and servicing in Leith, Edinburgh. Walk in Tuesday to Saturday or book a slot online."

On Liite you set both in the editor under Enhance → Search and sharing, with a share image for social posts.

Structure the page with headings

Use real headings for each section: what you do, prices, about, FAQ, contact. They help visitors scan and help search engines understand what each part covers. Google's starter guide recommends breaking long content into paragraphs and sections, with headings to help people find their way.

Keep the words on the page as text, not baked into an image, so they can be read and searched.

Answer the questions people ask

The questions people type into search are your best section ideas. An FAQ near the bottom covering price, location, hours and how it works helps visitors decide and gives search engines more to understand. Keep each answer short and specific.

Mind the single-page traps

• Anchor sections aren't pages. Google's URL guidance says it generally doesn't support URL fragments, so liite.co/yourname#services isn't indexed separately. That's fine, as long as you don't expect each section to rank.
• Don't hide content behind clicks or scripts. If the text only appears after a script runs, some of it may not be seen. Liite pages are built as plain HTML, so the text is in the page itself.
• Speed and phones matter. Compress large images and check the page on a phone. Liite shrinks images in your browser before upload.

Tell Google about your site

Add the site to Google Search Console and verify you own it. Search Console accepts an HTML tag in your page's head as one verification method. On Liite, add Google's verification tag in the site settings under tracking and verification, on any plan.

Then get a few genuine links: your social profiles, business listings, and partners or clients who would naturally mention you.

When to add a second page

Add a page when a topic needs more than a paragraph and has its own searchers: a separate service, a second location, or a detailed menu. On Liite, Pro sites can have up to 10 tabs, each at its own address such as liite.co/yourname/menu. If you have your own domain, tabs move to the root, such as yourname.com/menu.

Check how it looks when shared

Search isn't the only way people find a page. Check the title, description and image that appear when someone pastes your link into a chat or social post:

For building the page itself, see the one page website builder, and to put it on your own address, the guide to connecting a domain.