Sometimes, having a high quality content built is not enough for a blog to succeed you need to have a good design, that helps your content to become a hit!

Homepage! It’s one of the most visited page in your website or blog, and usually it’s the first page seen by your first time visitors in your site, so this should be attractive enough to make your first time visitors a regular visitors.

Here are 5 simple and basic tips to make your homepage better:

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1. Looks Clean And Simple

Simplicity is good for a site’s homepage. Take a look at Google’s Homepage, it has a very simple look yet it’s very powerful and Google is #1. So to make your homepage better you don’t have to make it look fancy, just make it look clean with less intensive colors.

2. Reduce Number Of Links

If you have more number of links in your page, then your page is not optimized for search engine. Having more unwanted links affects your blog’s SEO. Usually, a wordpress theme will display “Tags”, in the footer or in sidebar, which itself will add nearly 30-50 links to your page.

Analise your page and reduce the number of links to the right number.

3. Reduce Number Of Images and Image size

Having more number of images in your homepage will slow down your homepage and the page load time increases, which will result in the increase in bounce rate and decrease in Page views/Users.

Not only homepage! It’s the same on any page of your blog. So make sure you don’t insert many pictures, and make sure the images that you add to your blog posts are not too huge in size.

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4. Keep Your Homepage Clean – No Ads

If you fill your homepage with Ads, your site will look terrible. Your blog is good enough to chase your visitors if you fill it with ads.

Moreover, You don’t have to put ads in your homepage, because it’s not ‘content monetization’, as homepage doesn’t contain any contents, but only links to the contents.

You can make use of WordPress Conditional Tags to display ads in all pages except your homepage.

For Eg. <?php if(is_home()) { } else { Ad code; }

5. Clear Calls To Action

When a visitors comes to your site, he/she should be able to clearly spot what they should do next and exactly what this action will achieve. Confusing pages with unclear options will result in visitors leaving the site without making a purchase or engaging a service.

So, your site should look clean, with less ads and with clear calls to action, and your pages should be loading at a decent page load time.  That’s it! It should make your homepage better than before.

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My name is Praveen, founder and editor-in-chief of Geeks4share.com I am from India. Here I blog about blogging tips, money making, tech news, SEO, traffic building and more tips and tricks all related to computer or internet. If you like my blog don't forget to spread a word to your friends.