This SEO Mistake is RUINING you on Google
The SEO Mistake That Will Hold Back Your Earnings and Rankings
In this video, Matt Diggity discusses an SEO mistake that can severely hold back your earnings and Google rankings. He explains why you should not optimize your homepage for keywords and provides tips on how to design your homepage for maximum benefit.
Do Not Optimize Your Homepage
- Do not optimize your homepage for anything whatsoever.
- Keep your homepage like a portal to convey trust and get people to various pieces of content on your website.
- Refrain from optimizing your home page for anything but your brand.
Reasons Why Ranking Your Homepage is a Bad Idea
- It limits you and prevents you from expanding into other niches.
- It messes up your ability to implement one of the most important SEO tactics there is - interlinking to establish topical relevance.
- It makes it difficult to rank other pages on your site because all the link equity goes to the homepage.
- It's harder to create targeted content when everything is focused on the homepage.
How To Design Your Homepage For Maximum Benefit
- Use categories or silos instead of trying to rank everything on the homepage.
- Create internal links between pages within each category or silo.
- Use breadcrumbs so users can easily navigate through different categories or silos.
- Use a "Start Here" page to guide new visitors to the most important pages on your site.
Conclusion
- Do not optimize your homepage for keywords. Instead, use it as a portal to direct traffic to other pages on your site.
- Use categories or silos and interlink them together to establish topical relevance.
- Keep your options open by not limiting yourself with a homepage that is optimized for one specific keyword.
Why You Shouldn't Rank Your Homepage
This section explains why ranking your homepage is a bad idea and how it can negatively impact your website's performance.
Reasons Not to Rank Your Homepage
- It makes outreach link building more difficult.
- It makes your site less trustworthy and credible.
- It limits the expandability of your website into other niches, making it harder to sell.
- There are rare exceptions when you want to rank your homepage, such as when Google displays homepages for specific keywords or brand terms.
How to Design a Proper Portal Page
This section provides tips on how to design a proper portal page that establishes credibility and encourages users to navigate around the site.
- The first goal of the homepage is to establish credibility for the reader. This can be done by using credibility indicators such as featured strips highlighting publications, custom logos, high-quality hero images, clever navigation bar links, and sections on product review processes and standards.
- The second goal of the homepage is to get users to click something and navigate around the site. This can be achieved by presenting the homepage like a menu at a five-star restaurant with big graphical buttons leading people to wide categories that the website covers. Additionally, featuring popular articles on the site or articles that are important for ranking can encourage users to stay longer on the site.
Why You Shouldn't Rank Your Homepage
This section explains why ranking your homepage is a bad idea and how it can negatively impact your website's credibility, expandability, and link building efforts.
Reasons Not to Rank Your Homepage
- Monetizing your homepage makes it difficult to establish trust with readers.
- Niche content on the homepage limits expandability into other niches and makes the site more difficult to sell.
- Ranking the homepage is only recommended when other websites in the same niche are also ranking their homepages.
- The main goal of a portal design is not to rank the homepage but rather to establish credibility for readers.
How to Design a Proper Portal Page
- The first goal of the homepage is to establish credibility for readers through elements such as featured strips, custom logos, high-quality images, and clever navigation bar links.
- The second goal of the homepage is to get readers off the page and onto other pages on the site by presenting it like a menu at a five-star restaurant with graphical buttons leading to wide categories.
- Featured post sections should include articles that are popular on the site or important for ranking purposes.
Benefits of SC Ranking
This section highlights some of the benefits of using SC Ranking, including its advanced tools for optimizing content performance in multiple regions.
Benefits of SC Ranking
- Use SC Ranking's advanced tools such as competitive research, keyword research, website audit, backlink checker, and monitoring to optimize content performance in multiple regions.
- SC Ranking offers an exclusive two-week extended free trial through the link in the video description.
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The Problem with "My Site is Awesome"
In this section, the speaker mentions that there is a problem with saying "my site is awesome" without any context or explanation.
- The phrase "my site is awesome" does not provide any information about what makes it awesome.
- It can be difficult for users to understand why they should use the site if there is no explanation of its features or benefits.
- Providing context and explanations can help users understand what makes the site unique and valuable.
- Without context, users may leave the site without exploring its features or benefits.