This frequently asked questions post answers the question, “What are the recommended pages to setup on your blog?”
What are the recommended pages to setup on your blog?
- Blogs (needed if you have it setup as a static page).
- Home (PinArtwork’s home page)
- Disclaimer *
- Privacy Policy *
- Terms and Conditions and *
- About Me
- Getting Started or Start Here page
- FAQs (optional)
- Custom 404 page
- Contact Me and
- Guest Post Policy (optional)
Above, I’ve also provided a link to my About Me pins on my Pinterest Board, PinArtwork Blogger. I thought that I had pins for the other pages (Disclaimer, Terms and Conditions, and Privacy Policy) but I don’t have those set up at the moment. They’re pretty easy to set up so I’m not expecting to add pins for the other pages.
However, the About Me page is a very important page and you want to make that page stand out so I do have a Pinterest Board set up for that. I’m pretty sure I have pins for the other pages but they aren’t in a distinct board for me to provide you with a link to those specific types of pages.
A home page is not something you have to do. If you don’t want to mess around too much with your site structure and simply have a blog there’s no need to have a home page. The home page is definitely required if you set up a static page on your website.
The home page is your blog’s landing page. From there that’s where you drive traffic through your blog, so if you have a home page it’s one of the most important pages to set up. I like to use a plug-in called Rank Math to give me suggestions to improve my blog’s SEO and it recommends that the home page should be 50Kb or less.
The pages that have an asterisk “*” at the end are pages that you can go to a website, type in the one of the pages and add generator to the end of the Google Search to bring up a whole bunch of sites that will generate a template for you and then you’ll need to copy and paste the relative information on your blog (for example, Privacy Policy generator).
I just finished watching a YouTube video from an SEO expert Matthew Woodward and he suggests that your home page should have lots of keywords on it. That wouldn’t be possible without a lot of words, so you have to make a decision as the webmaster which direction you want to lean. Personally, I’m leaning in the favor of building up my home page so it has the keywords that I want to rank for all in one easy and convenient place.
Getting Started or Start Here page. “The ‘Getting Started’ page can be a great way to speak to new visitors and point them toward all the interesting things that can be found on your site. A good “Getting Started” page should highlight your most popular content, your best products, and anything else that you think is crucial for a new visitor to learn.”
I put FAQs (Frequently asked questions) on the list because unless you want to be repeating the same thing over and over again, it’s a helpful place to put questions that are commonly asked for within your niche.
Custom 404 Page – “WordPress automatically displays a 404 error page when it cannot find a specific piece of content. Normally, the 404 page is very plain and is not very useful.”
Related posts for the types of Recommended pages to setup on your blog:
12 Essential WordPress Blog Pages to Have
Important pages that every WordPress Blog should have
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