How might a widgetized homepage affect SEO?

Hi Wes

Genesis/Studiopress claim to have a good SEO, however a bad genesis child theme choice can harm SEO too.

So let’s wrap up:

1) Google indexes homepage first, domain + whatever they find on homepage = best combination: and mainly keyword density, image alts, etc. That is homepage content. QUESTION: are Epik homepage widgets content indexed by search engine bots? Have you tested it?

I don’t think that with SEO title and SEO description will be enough for SE bots [add_action( ‘genesis_meta’, ‘epik_home_genesis_meta’ );]

2) I could add some text on the homepage that loads before the widgets but I can’t because there’s no “homepage” Page as such…only a home.php that loads a sidebar with widgets.

3) And yet I like the design of homepage.

So could I use a full width page as a static frontpage , and have another page load the widget structure found at home.php?

So homepage loads a page with text and images, etc which is better for the seo of my domain and the home.php actually works for instance for a ‘Services’ page or sth like that?

4) All your themes have widgetized homepages?

Thanks!

Hi Eric

Thanks Eric, I hadn’t missed them.

You see, SEO doesn’t seem to be an exact science, and after outsourcing with 5 SEO consultants and agencies, from Spain and the US…the thing is: they say different things each time. The guys I’m working with now say that homepage content shouldn’t look empty to bots

I’ll assume the bot will index feature/welcome widgets titles and content.

So I’m happy with that,

Thanks!