A few Important Pages For Every Website

If you are starting a new website, or even auditing an existing website, then you may not have yet considered the pages of your website other than your posts. But, there should be several nigh on standard pages. Here are my suggestions and reasons.

A Home Page - On the whole, it is nice-looking obvious that you are going to have a home page. Most blogs will display recent posts either in full or only as excepts. But, if you are intending to sell posts, then you really should include the full posts to give advertisers full value, and increase your advertising fees.

Contact Page - You may not think that a contact page is a necessary part of a blog, but it is totally essential and should not be excluded! It is vital to have a contact page if you are wanting to run any sort ofadvertising at all, or to communicate with others who may be interested in your activities.

Displaying your phone number and address is perhaps far from ideal and displaying your email address opens you to all sorts of spam, but a easy contact page with a contact form is simple enough. Have a look at the newsletter plugins and even captcha form plugins that are available for this.

Why is it important? Well, once your website is doing well advertisers might find it and want to ask you round buying space. Other bloggers may want to contact you around guest post opportunities on your website. Having a few way of contacting you is invaluable.

Disclosure Page - Only needed if you are making an income in some way from your weblog, if you are affiliate selling, sponsored posting or a variety of other paid methods, disclosing that this takes place is a good idea. Only say that you do accept payment for posts and so on.

Subscribe Page - This is another one you may think is pointless, but is actually very useful. You may have a big, easy to use RSS icon on every page, but does every reader of your website know how to use it and what the advantages are?

Create an obvious page, that might be called Follow Us, Read More or something fairly obvious to indicate that it is the page to go to in order to find out more round what you are writing. Give on this links to your RSS feed, plus a comment on the advantages on using RSS Feeds. Sell it to your readers, if they have got to this page rather than using your RSS icon, then they possibly need help.

Then either add instructions on how to use the RSS feed or a link to a web site that explains it. A few readers can be so pleased to learn this new trick that they decide to follow your weblog.

Also, offer a newsletter feed. Use either a suitable plugin or a third party service for this. You are giving your readers lots of choice as to how to keep updated, meaning they are more budding to keep reading and coming back, thus increasing your traffic!

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Written by Keith Lunt of How To Start Blogging. Call in if you need any help or advice with earning money blogging.

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