How to Design A Beautiful Homepage That Ranks on Google – The Non-Designer’s Guide

How do you make your homepage more SEO friendly? You know that hey, for a lot of keywords, content pages tend to do better, but does that mean that your homepage can't rank for anything? Of course not. Today I'm going to teach you how to design a beautiful home page that ranks on Google.

RESOURCES & LINKS:
____________________________________________
How to Do SEO For A Tiny Site With No Backlinks :

The Perfect SEO Setup for WordPress: 8 Plugins to Skyrocket Your Rankings and Traffic :
____________________________________________

Look, home page SEO is very similar to optimizing your other pages, but just skipping over your home page is going to be a big mistake and you're going to miss out on a lot of opportunities. People go to your home page and learn more about your businesses all the time. First impressions are everything, and that relates to your home page as well. And here are some tactics that you can employ to create a beautiful home page that ranks on Google.

First off, state your company's value proposition and selling points right away.

Point out your unique selling points. What makes your company different from others? Wherever you can, you want to make sure that you point out your business’s strongest selling points, and you want to put this really early in your content.

Next, you want to use customer testimonials.

Trustworthiness is a huge aspect of conversions. As the internet continues to take over, brand trust is getting more and more important. Not to mention, brand trust leads to brand loyalty, AKA, returning customers. Showcasing your customer testimonials is a great way to build trust with new visitors.

Next, you want to make your homepage mobile-friendly.

Make sure you're using mobile-friendly themes and your website is responsive. Whether it's a small mobile device, or a bigger mobile device, or a tablet device, that way you're compatible. If you're wondering if your website is mobile optimized, well Google has free mobile testing tools out there for you.

Next, make your navigation simple.

Navigation is key when it comes to user experience. You don't want to have a site structure that makes people confused. Chances are if people are going to their site, and they can't find what they're looking for within a few clicks, they're going to bounce, Google is going to notice, and in the long run, it's going to hurt your rankings.

One of the biggest reasons that people bounce is because bad site navigation, and what I mean by that is either too many options or they can't find what they're looking for within three clicks. In general, less is more.

Next, I want you to optimize your home page title and metadata.

And if you're wondering how to craft something that's very appealing, roughly six-word headlines tend to do well, people love how-tos, they love lists, they love anything that tells them what they're going to get.

And if you need help with crafting your meta tags, whether it's your title tag or meta description with the right keywords, check out UberSuggest. Put in the keywords within your industry, then I want you to go to the keyword ideas report, and it'll tell you all keywords that you can consider targeting and look for the ones with the SEO difficulty score of less than 40, those are the ones that are the easiest and quickest to rank for.

If you also want help optimizing your title tags and you want to run experiments, you can also use tools like ClickFlow which allow you to AB test your title tags to maximize your clicks for your homepage. Then, I want you to pull in recent blog posts on your home page. Remember, your home page is like that welcome mat. People can be going there for many reasons.

Now, here's an interesting step for you, especially if you're e-commerce and you're just selling products, you may be like hey, I want my homepage just selling products, I don't want to showcase any content.

Last but not least, you want to close with a call to action.

Look, by people going to your home page, you don't want them just going wherever they want and have no end in sight. The end should be buying a product or service from you, going into Lead Magnet, collecting their name and information, whatever conversion is for you.

Make sure your call to actions are easily clickable, they're images that stand out, and you sprinkle them throughout your home page because some people could just go to your home page and they know they want to buy right away, and for those people, you want to make your call to action closer to above the fold.

► If you need help growing your business check out my ad agency Neil Patel Digital @

►Subscribe: to learn more secret SEO tips.
►Find me on Facebook:
►On Instagram:

#SEO #NeilPatel #DigitalMarketing

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

18 Responses to How to Design A Beautiful Homepage That Ranks on Google – The Non-Designer’s Guide

  1. Health veda Music Therapy March 7, 2020 at 10:01 am #

    Patel bhai ,,, thank you , looking for this kind of video only. Hope you remember me IG – @herbsstory

  2. Xueting Lin March 7, 2020 at 10:09 am #

    Hey Neil, This is very good! Very useful!

  3. Harshit March 7, 2020 at 10:12 am #

    Hey Neil, can you please make a video on how to get accepted into affiliate network like MaxBounty as a complete Beginner?

    • SEO Tools TV March 7, 2020 at 10:40 am #

      If you want to earn with affiliate programs, then start producing valuabe content for free in order to get a loyal audience. It’s only one way to earn a lot.

  4. Andrew C Witham March 7, 2020 at 10:19 am #

    Thank you Neil. That’s really clear advice I can use. The OLAY example is truly dramatic.

  5. Crisphel LerPen March 7, 2020 at 10:36 am #

    Thanks for these tips Neil…

  6. SEO Tools TV March 7, 2020 at 10:38 am #

    76% of visitors prefer to have experience with a simple website where they find faster essential information for them.
    Webmasters want to sell everything from one page.
    Check out apple. com. This company has a lot of products, but there is only iPhone 11 on the first visible screen and a suitable menu.
    People hate when websites are trying to sell them everything from one page.
    Keep it simple, asap.
    I’m talking a lot about this on my channel.

    • Social HubSpot March 7, 2020 at 5:11 pm #

      You are right man

  7. Eli Hernandez March 7, 2020 at 10:45 am #

    Why would google remove a thirty second video letting customers know that spring is here and that they should start thinking about there landscape?

  8. Sourav Mahanti March 7, 2020 at 11:24 am #

    Thank you sir
    To deliver this content.

  9. Raghav Singhal March 7, 2020 at 11:35 am #

    How to do a SEO of a page?
    My Home page contains latest blog posts

  10. Hasbullah Padzillah March 7, 2020 at 12:22 pm #

    A very timely video for me. thank you

  11. Trendy Commodities March 7, 2020 at 2:30 pm #

    Thanks, Neil!

  12. Laura B. March 7, 2020 at 3:05 pm #

    Thanks a lot for your advices, keep going, keep going… please

  13. Rojvan Sütcü March 7, 2020 at 6:20 pm #

    Did anyone’s “hey google” assistant also popup at 5:50?

  14. Pankaj Sharma March 7, 2020 at 6:23 pm #

    What a timing. I was just designing the homepage of my website :). Thanks!

  15. PeaceFood Cafe March 7, 2020 at 7:51 pm #

    Great content, easy pieces of advice to implement… I love it!!!
    Any good advice or tools for local shop (eg restaurant)?
    Many thanks for your videos;)

  16. Aleksandr Hovhannisyan March 7, 2020 at 9:17 pm #

    Cheers, Neil! I recently started using Ubersuggest as a formerly long-time user of Keywords Everywhere back when it was free (RIP). I’ve learned a lot about making SEO improvements to my personal website from your content. One of the things I noticed that Ubersuggest flagged is a lack of content on my landing page. And I have to say that I agree! I just revamped it and think it does a better job of getting my value prop across and marketing me. I look forward to more of your insight in the future.

Leave a Reply to SEO Tools TV Click here to cancel reply.