The Importance Of An Effective Homepage - How To Present Dynamic Website Content
Topics: effective website content, effective homepage content, dynamic website content
Looking for a way to attract more attention to your website? Offer a fresh face and new content on a regular basis and you’ll find people will check back to see what’s new and you’ll have a tool to measure what attracts and what doesn’t. Here’s how to do it.
Your website homepage is your front door through which online browsers come to visit your business. Static, never-changing content is no more interesting to a returning visitor than a book they have already read. To keep your audience captivated and coming back you need to make your home on the web inviting and interesting.
Present a Dynamic Home Page
One way that you can present changing home page content is to design ten to twelve unique pages with different content and then rotate them every month. Take a couple of weeks to design different ideas and images. Create page promotions that include a message that is timeless or that has a seasonal or timely announcement such as “Holiday Specials.” When you consider different features for your home page and when it should be placed you’re forced to look closely at at your marketing strategy over a one year period. This will save you a lot of time since you then won’t have to think about your home page content through the year. It also allows you to plan your offers and gather the necessary content.
A web developer can put your home pages on a rotating script or use an automatic timer. You can then rotate your home pages to highlight a new tip every month or to promote a featured product. The home page of your website is much like the front cover of a magazine. People want to see a home page that has different photos and content at least every month, preferably every week. You won’t want all of the content of your website to be featured on the home page as this will overwhelm your website visitors. So choose one or two features to highlight each month. The rest of your website content should be well organized within the rest of the pages of your site. When you’re ready to update your home page you simply grab content from your internal pages. This way you’re not having to create new content. You’re just reorganizing your existing content so that it feels new to your visitors.
Don’t Change Your Home Page Too Often:
Even though you want your website to be new and dynamic you also don’t want to change it too often. People take comfort from their favorite websites and want them to be familiar. If you change your home page too often or too much you may create confusion or give people the feel that someone else has taken over your site. You could also compromise your positioning in search engines. So maintain some consistency. When you make changes to graphics or content it shouldn’t make a major change to the way your website looks and feels. Regular visitors should be able to find the same information that they’ve always found on your home page and in the same place. As a rule, the headers and navigation tools on your home page shouldn’t ever change without a complete redesign and announcing that to your visitors. Change content and images with other content and images while maintaining the sites original functionality. Home pages that are consistent lend a feeling of comfort to users.
If your customers learn to expect consistency they’ll also learn to rely on your quality customer service. If you’re a small online business, gaining your customer’s trust is your most important step to success.
The Benefits of a Flexible Home Page
A flexible home page lets you test your off line marketing efforts. Before you spend money on a magazine or newspaper ad you can test it out on your website. You’ll be able to see how people react to the ad. Your home page will let you determine which featured products attract the most interest. You can also determine which graphics generate the most attraction. Web analytics software (Google Analytics is great and free to use) can provide you with this type of information. It will help you obtain marketing data that is detailed and precise. You can see which graphics people have clicked on as well as what web page they were on just before they left your website.
Once you’ve mastered the technique of updating your home page, while at the same time keeping the core content the same, you’ll be well on your way to recognizing the benefits of a flexible home page.
Cynthia Mosher has been working online since 1998. She shares her advice on working at home and internet and affiliate marketing at her website www.wahmdaily.com
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