Each page of your site should only contain one central topic or theme to help break up content and to make it easier for people to find.

Tree safe zone

On a website you aren’t restricted by the amount of pages you have to use so make use of the freedom! It’s far better to break content down into a section full of multiple short pages with useful titles than one long page that covers many different topics.

Help your audience

Even if a number of topics are closely related they can still be spread across different pages. If you were to write an article about cats and dogs as pets, it would be better to break it down into two pages, one on cats and one on dogs.

Think about what people will want from your pages. Some people may be interested in only one of the topics, such as cats, and only want that information. By breaking content down you give people the choice over what they read.

Benefits for you

• Categorising pieces of content into sections is easier.
• Referring people to content is easier because you can link to a page rather than a paragraph halfway down a page.
• Writing becomes easier because you only have to concentrate on one topic at a time.
• Search engines will know how to categorise a page better and push it higher up its rankings.
• Page length will be reduced.
  

Pages can still link

Remember, you can link pages together in sections. Even by splitting articles across multiple pages they can still be linked together both in terms of the actual links from page to page and in the writing itself. There is no harm in referring to another page or explaining that the article continues on another page as long as it is clear how to access it.