How Good or Bad is having a blog feed(s) on the homepage?

[brightvessel]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if I can get some different opinion about having a blog feed on the homepage.

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I have several feeds on mine which I do not believe it hurts and has helped my rankings but I wanted some superior SEO brains to weigh in.

https://www.brightvessel.com

Is it good for SEO?

When would it be bad?

How many posts would be considered too much?

On my blog, have the most recent posts which have some of the same feeds. Which is making me question the duplicated content.

https://www.brightvessel.com/blog/

Thanks!

Judd

[benesmartin]

Hey Judd,

In my opinion, there're too many links pointing to the articles in the feed.

I'd reduce the amount of articles on homepage by half which means to hide the second row for each category. Because now, the feed takes more than a half of the page. Try to add more static optimized text which will be unique.

As long as it's the discussion, I'm really excited about some other's opinions.

Cheers, Martin

[TimHolmes]

Hey Judd, I also agree with Martin.

I would suggest reducing the number of articles on your homepage. The homepage is more of a gateway to introduce further primary content, services and products of your site. A space to sell and entice your audience. I think by having so many articles you are potentially causing more distractions that necessary.

More content about your business and services would also be more beneficial than the blog content.

Maybe just have a single row for your blog, featuring a single article from each of your categories. That way hopefully you will enable your services to shine a little more whilst still retaining some peripheral related content seo value.

If people are searching for your blog content and you rank well, the articles themselves will predominately be the landing pages rather than your home page.

Hope that is of some use.

Cheers

Tim