Your blog won’t be successful without these 7 Essential Blog Pages.
Wondering what pages you need on your blog / website? Make sure you have all the essential blog pages for your blog or website for a successful blog.
It’s exciting running a blog. Whether you’re a beginner blogger or a seasoned blogger, there are a few essential blog pages that you need on your blog to make it successful.
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Creating pages is great for building your website and your viewers. The more pages and blog posts you create, the better search engines like Google, will be able to analyze your blog. Having amazing keyworded pages and blog posts are crucial to showing up on the first page of google and other search engines.
You also want to make sure that you have pages that describe you and your brand. Welcome pages, and about me pages are great pages to tell your readers more information about you and your blog missions or beliefs.
Lastly, although most important, your blog must have 3 essential legal pages. These 3 legal pages are important for protecting your blog legally. You are actually required by law to have these 3 pages viewable to your visitors.
Plus, in order to monetize your blog and start making money, you need these legal pages to join and be accepted to many affiliate programs. Programs like Google actually require you to have all 3 pages in order to be accepted.
Didn’t know the importance of these pages below? Here’s the 7 essential blog pages you need on your blog.
Welcome / home page
The first essential blog page I strongly recommend that you create, is a welcome / home page. This can be one of the first pages that someone sees when they visit your blog. Make sure that in your welcome page you explain and highlight your brand or business.
Give a quick overview of your services and what content you provide. Quickly explain to your audience how your blog / webpage is perfect for them.
Include a call to action. This can be anything from directing your audience to read your newest blog posts, to subscribing to your email newsletter. Have links directing to your products and services if available.
Keep it simple. Don’t overload your reader right away. Over-stimulation can lead to them leaving your web page.
Lastly, don’t forget to highlight you. Just a little bit. Share a quick summary about yourself and your story and provide a link to the next essential page.
About me page
Your about me page highlights you. But not in a journal, biography sort of way. More in a how you and your story inspired you to start your blog. How you got to where you are. Your story, but relating to your website and niche.
ReallyRushai is for moms focused on creating the life of her dreams.
I help moms like you, make money blogging. If you’re ready to live your best life with a successful online business, you’re in the perfect place!
When writing about you, make sure you include these 3 things:
- What you do + what you love
- Your blog or personal brand or mission
- Photos of you!
Share your unique qualities and how those unique qualities can help them. How your story and experiences can provide useful examples and tips for your audience.
Your about me page should be engaging and informative. The goal is to make your reader want to learn more about you and your brand.
Learn How to write a Killer About Me page here.
Contact me / contact us
To build relationships and trust between you and your audience, is why a contact me page is 1 of the 7 essential blog pages. Building relationships with your viewers can help bring more traffic through referrals. Who wouldn’t want to tell people about this really awesome girl named Rushai with a really awesome blog? Viewers can share your post amongst their friends and family.
In your contact page people can also send their questions or concerns, send a message just to chat, and brands can message you for potential sponsorships and programs.
Make sure your contact page is easily accessible. Place your contact page in your navigational menus and headings. Footers are great places as well.
Get a lot of repeating questions? Include a FAQ on your contact pages answering those questions.
Blog posts page
This is what your readers came to your blog for! Your content!
This is where you get to showcase your ideas and experiences, by writing amazing content that your readers will be interest in reading.
Check out “How to write blog posts your readers will ACTUALLY want to read.”
Always remember your audience when you are creating blog posts. Make sure your content is aimed at them and how you can help them.
Disclaimer and/or disclosure page
A disclaimer page is one of the 3 essential legal pages you need on your blog. A disclaimer page informs your readers that you and your brand do not take responsibility for things published or seen on your blog.
It lets them know that you are not a professional (unless stated to be) and you cannot be held liable for any outcomes.
For example, lets say you write a post on how you tripled your blog traffic in 1 month and they follow your strategies and don’t end up tripling their blog traffic in 1 month, you cannot be held responsible.
It lets them know that you are not a professional (unless stated to be) and you cannot be held liable for any outcomes.
For example, lets say you write a post on how you tripled your blog traffic in 1 month and they follow your strategies and don’t end up tripling their blog traffic in 1 month, you cannot be held responsible.
Additionally, your disclaimer page should include your affiliate disclosures, if you don’t have a a separate disclosure page/policy. You need to include this if you plan on using affiliate links to monetize your blog.
Quick tip: Make your disclosure policy a reusable block on WordPress. That way, you don’t have to type it and hyperlink it every single time.
Privacy Policy
The second legal page you need on your blog is a privacy policy page. A privacy policy page explains to your readers that you collect personal information on your website. It also explains how you use store and share this data.
It explains exactly what type of data you collect, and why you collect it. Who you share this collected data with and why you need to.
Programs like Google Adsense require you to have this page to join their program.
Terms and conditions
Lastly, you need a Terms and Conditions page. A terms a conditions page basically explains the rules and regulations of being on your website.
Your terms and conditions page protects you. It can serve as a legal contract between you and your audience.
Your Terms and Conditions Page should include:
- Your intellectual property rights
- An explanation of your site visitors obligations and rights as a viewer
- Your right to make any changes to your site or to terminate anyone’s usage of your website
- A limitation of liability
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Those were the 7 essential blog pages you need on your blog for a successful blog/website.
All of those pages are essential to having a successful, legal blog. Creating all of those pages will allow you to have an enticing, engaging blog, while still making sure your rights and legalities are protected.
Good luck creating all of your pages!
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