One of the best way to increase page views of your blog is by creating a productive home page on your blog. So, in my today’s article I am going to give a list of 6 blogs that has a great productive home page, it can be the source of inspiration for your next home page design. Lets start:
What is a productive home page
It is known fact that 95% of the visitor that open any of the article on your blog surely opens the home page. So, in order to decrease the bounce rate and to keep your visitors busy on your blog for a long time it is recommend to create a productive home page by displaying various articles from various categories. So below is list of top 6 blogs that has a real productive home page. Enjoy the list !
Techie Buzz
Techie Buzz
Tech Chunks
Tech Chunks
PC Tips Box
PC Tips Box
Honey Tech Blog
Honey Tech Blog
ProBlogger
Pro Blogger
Creative Blogging Ideas
Creative Blogging Ideas
If you planning to give a makeover to your blog design, you can take inspiration from the above designs. I hope you will like the list. Do share your comments & feedback.
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Nice List Gangan! i am also working on that !
First of all, thanks for considering our blog (TechChunks.com) worth mentioning along with other blogging heavy-weights like Problogger and Techie Buzz.
We are using a theme by “Theme Junkies” and have done subtle modifications to make it suit our needs (while making sure it is productive and gives our user a pleasant stay when they are visiting us).
I’m a Software Analyst in my day job and having worked on Web Usability has helped me a great deal in understanding how important “ease of navigation” is for any web user. Having an aesthetic pair of eyes doesn’t hurt either!
Yes I agree that the Homepage should have more content. But it should not confuse the reader also. Designs depend on the type of niche you are in. for example, if your website or blog is about copy writing, then these kind of homepage wont make any sense to.
Your screen shots make it much more illustrative to understand. Great post.
Homepage should be eye catching and full of useful information so that users not moved back immediately, out of the list I liked the problogger and techiebuzz the most…. can be work on it….thanks.
IMO: Home page should be optimised for loading time and have YSlow of around 80%.
Few more pointers for home page:
1.Should not have be longer in height and should not have horizontal scroll.
2.Should link with most active page of your site as google sitemap’s catches the links from homepage itself.
4.You already might be aware of not calling useless scripts at the header of homepage. (scripts that called due to installed plugin’s like cforms, bookmarking plugins, polls and etc).
5.Should have proper and clearly visible search box.
6.Should not be crowded with ads
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My few cents !
Thanks Honey for giving valuable tips on setting up a productive home page. It will help our readers a lot.
Too many posts n categories look like a news, not a blog. What if a categ. is not posted for long?- old content will be displayed.
Hi Shekhar,
If a category is not posted for long time then its better you choose only those categories on home page on which you write the most.
I always wish to have such a homepage but my post frequency is low. So its not a good idea for me to have such a blog homepage.
Thank you for your interest
I like PC Tips Box and Honey Tech Blog designs, because they loads very fast and looks so clean and it attracts visitors like me.