Summary
Your homepage is your shop front. It doesn't matter if your store is an affiliate marketing page, or a blog. Your home page will be the first thing anyone sees when they visit one of your blogs. It is still a good idea to optimize your home page for organic traffic.
The first goal of your search engine optimization efforts is to ensure that search engines understand the content of your homepage. Google uses a sophisticated algorithm that "reads" your homepage and determines what it is about. You must follow the rules and optimize your content for human consumption.
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RVsRock
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Read the entire training. Page loading for one's home page is critical.
My home page is quite simple, with one small logo image repeating twice. I have another image used once. It is also a small image.
Then, I have a divider image which is quite small repeating 27 times.
All images are .png images and should not load slowly.
I clean my the caches of my various browsers frequently, and it appears my home page loads quickly, both on mobile devices and on my laptop.
Google has given me a 98 rating for my .com site on a desktop device, but only a 54 rating on a mobile device.
I have been through this before and discovered the only fix i could come up with would be the same information on a .net domain for mobile use.
Twice the work, but I get good loading time on a mobile device for the .net domain, which came in at 82. That is not far from their best rating bracket of 90 - 100
Conclusion: I am happy with the Google analysis for the .com domain, which I hope most visitors will view and use on a desktop or laptop. And I am also content with the Google analysis for the .net domain, which I hope most visitors will view and use on a mobile device.
Time will tell. Thanks for the insights.
RVsRock
My home page is quite simple, with one small logo image repeating twice. I have another image used once. It is also a small image.
Then, I have a divider image which is quite small repeating 27 times.
All images are .png images and should not load slowly.
I clean my the caches of my various browsers frequently, and it appears my home page loads quickly, both on mobile devices and on my laptop.
Google has given me a 98 rating for my .com site on a desktop device, but only a 54 rating on a mobile device.
I have been through this before and discovered the only fix i could come up with would be the same information on a .net domain for mobile use.
Twice the work, but I get good loading time on a mobile device for the .net domain, which came in at 82. That is not far from their best rating bracket of 90 - 100
Conclusion: I am happy with the Google analysis for the .com domain, which I hope most visitors will view and use on a desktop or laptop. And I am also content with the Google analysis for the .net domain, which I hope most visitors will view and use on a mobile device.
Time will tell. Thanks for the insights.
RVsRock
RogerMackley
Premium
If your promoting products or services, a landing page would be very helpful. Need a call to action!
Aussiemuso
Premium Plus
Some excellent advice here Roger.
You seem to have your fingertip on the SEO pulse.
Thanks for sharing.
Lily
You seem to have your fingertip on the SEO pulse.
Thanks for sharing.
Lily
RogerMackley
Premium
Thanks much Lily, your kind comments for always appreciated. Have a great long weekend!
