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  • Are the Search Engines Tired of Your Home Page?

    Dynamic content creation is a necessary part of your overall web strategy. Blogs and RSS feeds are being used by small businesses everywhere. Unfortunately, this has caused a bit of stagnation on the static portions of the site, namely the home page. If your home page never changes, the search engines will grow tired of visiting your site.

    From a search engine standpoint, not to mention most users, the home page is still the first look. You can’t simply blog and call content creation done. If your home page has been indexed by the search engines, you can dramatically improve the search results for your home page and thus your entire site, by adding or changing that content every two weeks or so.

    You don’t need to mess with the page design, titles, headlines or meta tags, just change out some portion of the body text content with new relevant, keyword rich content. This little practice tells the search engines that this page had something new, this page changes often, – this alone will improve your search results.

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    Posted by: John Jantsch on Mar 11, 07 | 6:06 pm
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    • <pingback>...a bit of stagnation on the static portions of the site, … Original post by unknown This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 31st, 1969 at 4:00 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to ...</pingback>
    • <pingback>...of visiting your site. From a search engine standpoint, … Original post by unknown Permalink Leave a Comment Name (required) E-mail (required) ...</pingback>
    • <pingback>... ¿Están los buscadores cansados de su página?


      A través de Duct Tape Marketing nos llega una muy interesante reflexión sobre la necesaria actualización de los contenidos de la web, de TODOS los contenidos y no sólo de aquellos que ya ...</pingback>
    • This is exactly what we do!
      We add different featured products, change the content a little (by adding and subtracting keywords).
      We also change sub pages as well, especially our information pages.

      MSN and Yahoo rewards us for these changes in placement of many of the pages we re work the most (Google seems to be more concerned about authority sites tight now, regardless of content).
    • and that's exactly what we try to do, putting some dynamic content on the homepage (a news feature and a list of recently added vessels). it seems to pay off.
    • <trackback>"Are the Search Engines Tired of Your Home Page?"
      By John Jantsch: Dynamic content creation is a necessary part of your overall web strategy. Blogs and RSS feeds are being used by small businesses everywhere. Unfortunately, this has caused a bit of stagnation on the static portions of the</trackback>
    • <trackback>You&#8217;re website is up&#8230; but is anyone home?
      Does your site look like like a warm place to visit, or is it like a cold empty tomb of corporate speak and meaningless marketing slogans? Does it show that actual people are behind what it represents, or some faceless corporation?
      Everone knows that ...</trackback>
    • <pingback>...that content every two weeks or so. (From Duct Tape Marketing: Are the Search Engines Tired of Your Home Page?) To give life to your site you need to make sure the content is fresh, and it’s written in a way that encourages people to read it. ...</pingback>
    • Lars H
      Yes, that works great for a few of my sites that are managed with Wordpress as the content management system. It shot me up to the top of the search engines for a relatively big one word keyword within a year of creating one site. Not to mention plenty of other good results with other related terms about the category it is in.

      But I have several other plain HTML informational sites that have been in the top three with Google and the others for years that haven't changed a lick in four or five years.

      Those sites relate to gardening, and the information itself doesn't really change. You can't really do better than number one, and that's where several of those sites have been consistently sitting for years.

      So I guess my response would be yes, that strategy works perfectly, except for when it doesn't.

      The thing that my sites with opposite strategies have in common is useful, well-written information. It's worth the effort to write something good!
    • John Jantsch
      Lars,

      I would agree with you for the most part. The site I find that really benefit are static ones that rarely update their content. When those sites do what I propose the impact is usually immediate.
    • John, great tips. We recently hired a SEO and are learning the ropes. I look forward to more on your site about optimization.
    • Thanks for the tip, John!

      Your post made me realize I haven't touched the home page of my "original" website (created long ago) in a LONG time! I add original content on a regular basis... but nothing on the home page. It just never occurred to me!

      I'm moving that to the top of my "To-Do" list! Thanks again! :-)
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