Is a huge mainpage good?

[Johan007]

Some of replies in the thread are just plain incorrect.


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[grazie1]

Originally Posted by webzenstar

I'm a fan of reasonably short pages featuring (hopefully) interesting themes.

Visitors looking for a specific information are better served when they -immediately- find "the object of their desire", IMHO ; )

Originally Posted by Robs

You need to clarify EXACTLY what the AIM of the homepage is.

What is your purpose?
What do you want the readers to find?

WHY will they come to your site?
What will they be looking for?
Rob

precisely guys!... i agree to you what u said, and to what our other fellas said...
It will be too boring and hassle if ur reading and scrolling for a long time.. and i guess 20 mins. is a long time. well, maybe for me that would be a long time especially when u wnt to get immediate result on wht u r reading/researching..

[dreamsubmitting]

it depends on site theme

[abidsultan]

sure, there is the risk of keywords targetting.

but it will not be completely crawled by the spider....i think there is some reasonable limit on the size of the page by the crawler.

well reasonably sized pages are recommended, with pure content which is adequately having pointing links to other pages, inorder to inforce the integrity of the website.

[abidsultan]

well, 20 min...think about it ..in 20 min you can do alot instead of just scrolling for nothing....but only if you got the pictures in that page...and those pictures got some interest of the viewer, so he/she may scroll it for 20 minutes.....

[abidsultan]

well i will surely have pain in my fingers to click on srcoll bar or to roll over the scrolling wheel continuously

[ninjashoes]

Since I doubled the threads on my front page my traffic doubled once again. I know people don't like scrolling forever but this strategy has so far been the most effective in traffic for my fledgling forum.