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- 📸 Google hates seeing repeated content
📸 Google hates seeing repeated content
Plus 3 quick tips: don’t say “welcome” on your homepage, familiarity, market saturation
Alex Vita
December 19, 2023 • Estimated reading time: 10 minutes
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Welcome!
Welcome to my newsletter.
I’m passionate about photography.
Now go read the first quick tip below.
IN TODAY’S EMAIL:
⚡️ 3 Quick tips: don’t say “welcome” on your homepage, familiarity, market saturation
🧠 Deep dive: Google hates seeing repeated content
🔍 SEO: republishing old blog posts + image SEO basics
🖥️ Website examples: a quirky pet photography site example
🔗 Links & Resources: more cool stuff for you to read
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
QUICK TIPS
1. Your website homepage shouldn't say: "Welcome"
It's just boring.
Or something like this: "Welcome to my travel blog". Again, it's boring!
Using the word "welcome" on your homepage has become such a cliché. It's similar to using the phrase "passionate about photography" in your About page.
It's just overdone, and you should try to avoid it. You should try to write something more clever or hire a professional copywriter to help you phrase it better.
2. Familiarity plays a big role in user-experience.
If people run into completely different styles when browsing through separate sections of your site (like your portfolio and blog), they’ll feel they're seeing separate websites.
So when combining multiple platforms, make sure that their design matches as closely as possible.
