Should I have content on my home page or links to my articles

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi, i have asked this question a couple of times without any luck so i am hoping third time lucky.

My site www.in2town.co.uk  has dropped in the rankings for two of my important keywords, lifestyle magazine and lifestyle news, so i am just wondering if i have to much content on the page for google to understand what the page is about.

i am thinking to just have the links on my page instead of the intro to the articles, for example another online magazine does this,

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/

Can anyone please let me know if i should keep the intro to the articles or if i should go with the links idea like femalefirst does to help google understand that we are a lifestyle magazine

any advice would be great

[ClaireH-184886]

thanks craig, replied to your pm.

[Craigseo]

Diane

It isnt that hard, there are many magazine style websites that look good and offer a wealth of information on their homepage to attract interest from potential visitors.

For example, if you google " ronaldinho recalled by brazil " here in the UK, this comes up http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2266523/Ronaldinho-recalled-Brazil-glamour-friendly-England-Wembley.html

That is an inner page within the newspapers website that ranks for this, your website should rank for your " keywords " via your articles or pages within your website.

You can rank a homepage, however in your case it is difficult as it is hard for the search engines to establish exactly what your homepage is about or targeting or relevant for, given the amount of different items on that page.

many websites do rank with very little content, possibly for a number of reasons, possibly using techniques they should'nt i cant really comment on this without seeing these sites.

But its not hard to optimise a magazine style website, its actually an ideal site to optimise given the amount of content going on it.

[ClaireH-184886]

thanks for this craig, can you let me know what steps i should do please and how i would do them, so i can get the ball rolling.

I am seeing lots of different sites that have hardly no content on the home page that is ranking better than us, and i am seeing lots of sites that do not have as many pages as we do that rank better than us, so there is a problem that i need to sort out.

it is hard with it being a magazine site trying to optimise the landing pages

[Craigseo]

Well when doing SEO a page targets a couple of keywords maximum, having had a look at your site, your homepage has articles from building a business to something about Cheryl Cole.

So your homepage isnt really targeting a keyword as such and this will be a bit of a problem in my opinion.

You should have a page that is about the keywords that you want to rank for.

Your website is layed out in a magazine style format, which is fine, id try and target your keywords on other internal pages rather than changing your homepage layout.