Does our new home page design look better and better for seo

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi, i would like to know if our new design for our home www.in2town.co.uk page looks better than it did. We are trying to target the keyword for lifestyle magazine and lifestyle news.

We are wondering if we should add more colour or graphics to the home page. we are going through each section of the site to make it a more enjoyable experience for our readers.

If anyone can give us advice on keeping people on the page and using different social media techniques then that would be great.

Through some excellent advice on here we are going to be starting a facebook page

[somes]

You forgot to include a link to your website...

[ClaireH-184886]

sorry it has been a busy day the site is www.in2town.co.uk

[somes]

I think it looks very spammy & unprofessional.

[ClaireH-184886]

ok thanks for that, can you let me know why the home page looks spammy, what do you not like about it

[somes]

I'm not trying to be mean, but everything. I'd recommend you to use WordPress and buy a theme from a marketplace. Or, develop some digital common sense in regards to websites, design and content.

[KeriMorgret]

Diane, the excessive ads for the hypnotherapy/weight loss help reduce credibility of the site. The travel news articles are outdated (the most recent one about holiday deals talks about it still being winter and about the upcoming Olympic games) and the Ryanair incident was from April 2012.Nothing has a date byline on it, so it makes it difficult for me to trust the article.

To a regular user, it looks like you don't have enough content and are trying to stretch it, as I'm seeing the same celeb picture multiple times in multiple locations on the home page.

The site seems to lack focus, or rather be focused on ads. Do people really care about that many bingo news features on a site that's supposed to (I think) be about celeb gossip?

The About section at the bottom looks spammy because it's small and in italics, making it hard to read. It looks keyword stuffed and like people aren't meant to read it, but that it's just there for search engines.

You may want to reconsider if you want to focus so much on the keyword "lifestyle magazine". What is the search volume like for that phrase? Are people really looking for that?

I'm surprised that I don't see a cookie notice like I do on most European sites these days. Is the UK excluded from that?