Do You Have A Link To Your Home Page In Wordpress?

Do You Have A Link To Your Home Page In Wordpress?

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When browsing blogs, I often see that there’s no way to get back to the home page once you are inside.

Or, if there is, it is just called Home (Page).

That’s wrong, because your visitors can’t navigate properly.
It’s also wrong from a search engine optimization perspective, because you don’t promote your home page on your site.

You should have a link referring to your home page at every other page in your blog.

And the text should NOT be Home (Page), but your Main Keyword, the same keyword that you (hopefully) have used in your domain name.

It’s very easy to implement this in the standard (Kubrick) Wordpress theme.

Just open the file sidebar.php.

At the very top, just after

<div id=”sidebar”>
<ul>

you’ll add this line:

<li><a href=”http://www.yourdomainname.com/”><strong>Your Domain Name</strong></a><br /><br /></li>

of course, after filling in your domain name where appropriate.

Optionally you could add Home or Home Page in the anchor text (the part that says ‘Your Domain Name’). It’s up to you.

And that’s all.

Now you have a link to your home page on all pages inside your Wordpress blog.

Note: if you ever upgrade to a newer Wordpress version, don’t forget to save sidebar.php and upload it again after upgrading!

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Posted on Friday June 8, 2007 by Case Stevens
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6 Responses To: “Do You Have A Link To Your Home Page In Wordpress?“

Deaf Musician says:
June 8th, 2007 at 11:05 pm

Hmmm good point. Does clicking a logo count as being a link to the home page or does it have to be more obvious than that?

Case Stevens says:
June 9th, 2007 at 5:17 am

Two things are important here.

One: is the link to your home page obvious for your readers, in other words will they use it instantly to return home. As soon as they have to search for it, you should use another one. Let your family and friends try it and tell you what they experienced.

Second: The text in your links (anchor text) is important for search engines to learn what your link, page and site is all about. Therefore, although you must vary them, you also should consistently use related anchor texts.

Update:
Nupur, I visited your blog. Crisp, nice lay-out and good content!
Your logo may work, but if there’s any chance of having the domain name inserted as a link (Deaf Musician Home) I would do so.
Regards,
Case

Deaf Musician says:
June 9th, 2007 at 4:02 pm

Thanks Case. I’ll see what I can do in the next revision, then I’ll come back ask you, if that’ ok.

Affordable Internet Marketing Blog says:
June 19th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

A Remarkable Wordpress Sticky Plugin Alternative…

If you’re new here, you may want to Subscribe to my Updates or to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!If you run a blog powered by Wordpress, you have an option to install a Sticky plugins that causes a certain post to stay on top of your home page.
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Al (PaPaGrizz) Nelson says:
June 21st, 2007 at 9:14 pm

Case, I thank You and will put this into action…

Who said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks…..