Question About New Theme

[edgarf76]

Hi guys/gals, hope all is well. I am having a new theme created and am not sure how much info to put on the homepage. What do you guys/gals consider cluttered in your opinion? I have top slots, top casinos, casinos to avoid, most recent news, bonuses, tournament and tons of space for text. Do you think that is too much?

 

[bonustreak]

Nope sounds about right as long as you don't have a ton of cheesy banners

 

[robjmiller84]

Hi guys/gals, hope all is well. I am having a new theme created and am not sure how much info to put on the homepage. What do you guys/gals consider cluttered in your opinion? I have top slots, top casinos, casinos to avoid, most recent news, bonuses, tournament and tons of space for text. Do you think that is too much?

As for me, at this stage (if you are at the very, very beginning of creation) it will be quite enough. Over time, you will add information about partners, bonus systems, etc. For now, do not litter and reload the page.

 

[WCB]

All WP themes for affiliate websites are very dated in my opinion. I would suggest a completely different approach if you are trying to drive SEO traffic in 2023.
1. Add video content options, Without Youtube or other 3rd party service embed.
2. Optimise website for Alexa, Siri and other Voice activating systems. Even tho lot of people wont use it.
3. Text to speech function. Easy to integrate for mid-level developer, but most website owners dont have that option without plugins etc. If you can integrate into the theme SEO will be booming trust me

 

[codexman]

All WP themes for affiliate websites are very dated in my opinion. I would suggest a completely different approach if you are trying to drive SEO traffic in 2023.
1. Add video content options, Without Youtube or other 3rd party service embed.
2. Optimise website for Alexa, Siri and other Voice activating systems. Even tho lot of people wont use it.
3. Text to speech function. Easy to integrate for mid-level developer, but most website owners dont have that option without plugins etc. If you can integrate into the theme SEO will be booming trust me

Could you please elaborate on point 3?
Interesting, how text-to-speech functionality can be beneficial to SEO? How does Google index that?

 

[WCB]

I've heard rumors both from SEO specialists and also people inside google that text-to-speech is increasingly more and more important especially on blogs. I'm not sure technically how that works, but as far as I know, if you use AWS text to speech AI tools, all the data goes through amazon and gets "Double indexed" by google. I believe they are working on a feature when searchers are done by voice commands, search results can be generated via Voice as well, therefore if you already have content ready to go in Speech, it gets higher priority. For now not a lot of casinos keywords are getting Voice searches, but still helps overall SEO as far as I understand.

 

[edgarf76]

Nope sounds about right as long as you don't have a ton of cheesy banners

lmfao, I go back and forth with the banners and its tough. They make the site look cheap but they help monetize. I am trying to find a middle ground for this new theme.

 

[edgarf76]

All WP themes for affiliate websites are very dated in my opinion. I would suggest a completely different approach if you are trying to drive SEO traffic in 2023.
1. Add video content options, Without Youtube or other 3rd party service embed.
2. Optimise website for Alexa, Siri and other Voice activating systems. Even tho lot of people wont use it.
3. Text to speech function. Easy to integrate for mid-level developer, but most website owners dont have that option without plugins etc. If you can integrate into the theme SEO will be booming trust me

Those are three great ideas. I was planning on adding a section for the podcast and something similar to the way lcb has their videos in their reviews over time for the casino review page templates. I am going to bring up the second and third points to the developer today. Thank you.