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Is There a Benefit to Putting All Blog Content on Homepage?

by easygoingdude
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Is there any traffic benefit to putting all the content of your blog on the home page?

So, rather than seeing 5 or 10 of the most recent posts on the blog page, you'd see 50 posts on the same page.

Does this help in getting long tail traffic? Because the homepage is often the strongest in terms of link juice and just stonger in general than individual article pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    No don't do that, your homepage will be too huge and take longer to load. Plus no one will scroll through the entire list to find something. People want to use categories and navigation to find what they want. And no it won't help with getting long-tail traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author easygoingdude
      Originally Posted by Bill_Z View Post

      No don't do that, your homepage will be too huge and take longer to load. Plus no one will scroll through the entire list to find something. People want to use categories and navigation to find what they want. And no it won't help with getting long-tail traffic.
      I may be wrong, but I remember Grizzly from makemoneyonlinegrizzly.com saying that he made super long blog posts and just put them all on the home page to rake in traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I wouldn't do that. Site will take forever to load and be unsightly as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author NicoleBeckett
    Ditto to what Bill and Suzanne said... The last thing you want is for a new visitor to arrive on your home page and be totally overwhelmed by the mass of text staring back at him. Instead of trying to make sense of it all, most people will just hit the "back" button.

    Plus, I would imagine that it would actually be easier to get long-tail traffic if you have specific internal pages that relate to certain topics/keywords. As an added benefit, if you can build up your internal pages for long-tail/low competition keywords, it will bolster the strength of your home page (by showing the search engines that you have a site that's rich through-and-through).
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  • Profile picture of the author cellington
    A powerful strategy is to keep your home page fairly short, ensuring it is completely relevant for your main keywords. Then organize your subpages to optimize for long tail and other keywords. That way every page loads quickly, and your visitors arrive at your site on the perfectly appropriate page for their desires/needs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Micah Medina
    Remember that your "link juice" spreads out across the pages that you've linked to. As I understand it, a PR7 page with three links is going to be able to pass much more juice than if the same page linked to 100 different sources.
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