Homepage is not just the welcome page of your website. It's the first-impression page of it all, plus more. The homepage should:
- Welcome visitors.
- Give them a reason to stay and stay a long time.
- Arouse their interest in your offers (your offers are your articles and products).
- Lure them to navigate around, try checking out your other pages, clicking your links.
- Encourage them to sign up for membership.
This goes true to both websites and blog sites.
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Every website gives big-time attention to the homepage because it can serve as your landing page or sales page, too. This is the moment-of-truth page of your website. Will they or will they not? People who drop by your website see this page first, so it's got to be an eye and heart catcher, capturing the imagination of your readers. What makes a web home page impressive? Here are three web and blog tips.
1. Don't Mess it Up with Useless Stuff
Most people think a cluttered home page attracts visitors. So they put in a lot of graphics and special effects. This may get attention for a while but digital decorations like that bore people sooner than you think. And anyway, it's hard to be changing graphics now and then. The advisable thing is to make your web home page as simple as possible, and that makes it visitor-friendly, too. Easy to navigate and direct to the point. The thing I hate most in people is their round about way of explaining things. Just get to the point.
Most people think a cluttered home page attracts visitors. So they put in a lot of graphics and special effects. This may get attention for a while but digital decorations like that bore people sooner than you think. And anyway, it's hard to be changing graphics now and then. The advisable thing is to make your web home page as simple as possible, and that makes it visitor-friendly, too. Easy to navigate and direct to the point. The thing I hate most in people is their round about way of explaining things. Just get to the point.
2. It's All There.
You'd often find home pages that fit right into your screen--you don't have to scroll down to see its entirety. This is simple and easy to explore. You won't have to scroll deep to see everything. The main points are right there on screen once the website appears. There is the header, the menu, and some captions below--probably 4 or 5--which have links to a full page of their contents. The sidebar is seldom used. This way, you easily see what the website is all about. One look and you find what you're looking for. Make sure all the links of your pertinent blog articles are at the top of your frint page.
3. Websites Should Have Their Blogs Easily Located.
You'd often find home pages that fit right into your screen--you don't have to scroll down to see its entirety. This is simple and easy to explore. You won't have to scroll deep to see everything. The main points are right there on screen once the website appears. There is the header, the menu, and some captions below--probably 4 or 5--which have links to a full page of their contents. The sidebar is seldom used. This way, you easily see what the website is all about. One look and you find what you're looking for. Make sure all the links of your pertinent blog articles are at the top of your frint page.
3. Websites Should Have Their Blogs Easily Located.
For full websites, a blog is a must. It will give your web homepage variety each day, so you have to have a regularly updated blog. Moreover, blogs improve your SEO ranking. You can have a small window somewhere above or below your web home page that features your recent blog articles with their images. This puts in something new and interesting on your home page instead of changing its entire face or the graphics from time to time.
Cluttering your home page may give it a busy look with plenty of things to see around, and your visitors may be enthralled to click your widgets there. But in the end it won't be remembered as an impressive site, like how adults seldom get impressed with playgrounds than they do smart and clean offices.
Smart and Clean
Smart and clean; that's how websites ought to be. And that's how most people prefer it. Your website reflects your person or company, and people want to deal with smart, clean, and honest people. If you want to project that image online, you start with your website. Make everything simple and avoid clutter. As much as possible, make it a 4:1 ratio where images and texts are concerned, with 4 being the ratio of articles or texts. We're not negating the power of images and graphics, but neither do we want to downplay the superior power of words.
However, with superior power of words, we mean the right way of making articles which are SEO effective. Over worded articles and home pages also hurt the quality of your website. Balance and simplicity is always the rule here. And remember always to GET TO POINT. Don't be circuitous and keep you rreaders in suspended animation. A lot of promotional and webinar videos are meandering, winding and time wasting, which make their presentation and themselves look dumb. And they all keep doing it that way.
With Free Websites
With free websites, a simple, smart and clean web home page is also the best option, especially one that is easily surveyed with a slight scroll down. Just make use of links and additional pages with link buttons clearly seen on the tab, or link the captions to articles on your blog. It's always helpful to maintain a blog on your website. It has many vital uses. Slog Bhop is always all for blogs—that’s why it’s a Blog Shop.
Cluttering your home page may give it a busy look with plenty of things to see around, and your visitors may be enthralled to click your widgets there. But in the end it won't be remembered as an impressive site, like how adults seldom get impressed with playgrounds than they do smart and clean offices.
Smart and Clean
Smart and clean; that's how websites ought to be. And that's how most people prefer it. Your website reflects your person or company, and people want to deal with smart, clean, and honest people. If you want to project that image online, you start with your website. Make everything simple and avoid clutter. As much as possible, make it a 4:1 ratio where images and texts are concerned, with 4 being the ratio of articles or texts. We're not negating the power of images and graphics, but neither do we want to downplay the superior power of words.
However, with superior power of words, we mean the right way of making articles which are SEO effective. Over worded articles and home pages also hurt the quality of your website. Balance and simplicity is always the rule here. And remember always to GET TO POINT. Don't be circuitous and keep you rreaders in suspended animation. A lot of promotional and webinar videos are meandering, winding and time wasting, which make their presentation and themselves look dumb. And they all keep doing it that way.
With Free Websites
With free websites, a simple, smart and clean web home page is also the best option, especially one that is easily surveyed with a slight scroll down. Just make use of links and additional pages with link buttons clearly seen on the tab, or link the captions to articles on your blog. It's always helpful to maintain a blog on your website. It has many vital uses. Slog Bhop is always all for blogs—that’s why it’s a Blog Shop.
Blogging is the Best
To me, a blog is always the best. I prefer doing away with websites which are often cluttered, and stick with blogs, and a FREE blog at that. Why a free blog? First, it's FREE 😁 and the best things in life are free. Second, it's not whether a blog is free of paid, it's the content that matters. A lot of "experts" say a paid blog is preferrable because it shows professionalism, serious intention and what-have-you. I beg to disagree. A lot of scams out there are found on paid websites.
I had lots of paid blog sites before but I noticed how my free blogger sites perform better than my paid ones. So what the heck? And free blogger sites are easier to apply for AdSense--I mean, just a few clicks and you're applied with AdSense, and monetization with ads.txt placement is easy. You just fill in the blanks. So today, I have all my blogs FREE and got rid of the paid ones.
And anyway, this is my hobby. If my blogs make money, well and good. Thank GOD. If not, well and good, too. Thank GOD as well. You see? No stress, no pressures. Do I make money with free blogs? Of course I do! And stay with Slog Bhop to learn tips about how to make money for FREE!
Slog Bhop Note: If you have a blog you need someone to supply with relevant articles, just contact me and I'll do it for you for a reasonable service charge a week. For a sample, I charge Php700 per page of 400 words. For details about this, please contact me: choysblog@gmail.com
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