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I'm writing a single-page application.

The navigation links look like this:

http://example.com/?home

http://example.com/?contact-us

http://example.com/?about-us

In terms of SEO, would this be improved by adding a file name such as:

http://example.com/index.html?contact-us
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    ...would this be improved by adding a file name... No. Makes no difference at all.
    – closetnoc
    Mar 25, 2018 at 16:48
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    index.html is a particularly poor filename for SEO. It conveys no extra meaning for search engines. The URLs usually work either with or without it, leading to duplicate content issues for SEO.
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Mar 25, 2018 at 23:48
  • I would prefer the cleaner URL without the index.html as they tend to have higher click through rates.
    – Michael d
    Mar 27, 2018 at 5:45

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Assuming the file name for your single page application is specifically index.html, rather than some other file same, such as single-page-application.html, whether or not you include the file name in your links should have no impact on SEO.

I would, however, recommend using https if you aren't already, as this will be beneficial for SEO.

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html

You can get a free SSL/TLS Certificate from Let's Encrypt.

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