So my health site http://www.healthyhumanbeing.ca is a word press blog, and currently I am showing the entire post of an article on the home page. I was told to do this due to the fact that onpage seo would be better this way. With my posts (3) on the main page, my google ads are not relevant to each specific post and only become relevant if I click on the title of the actual post. Knowing this, would I be better served to just show summaries of articles, to encourage my visiters to actually click on the "read more" button thus turning my google ads into relevant ones? Cheers.
I'm fairly new to this, but I've normally seen people only putting the full text for very short articles. It would seem to me that if the individual article page is properly optimized, and if the SE indexes that, a reader would go back to the main page if the content is interesting. Depending on the width of your topic, I'd think it would dilute any SEO you might get on your main page to always display whole articles. Feel free to correct a newbie if I'm way off base here. tyrithe
lol im beginning to think along those lines also, am probably gonna change them to just show partial entries.
If people want to leave a comment they will go to that page anyway. I find that in order to use summaries you are required to know how to create posts that grab the readers attention otherwise they will never be bothered to read the entire post. Another aspect to consider is the need to have more posts in the main page.
I'm kinda concerned though about my google ad relevancy. With the summaries, the visiter will click on titles, thus changing my ads to ones that are relevant for that specific article. Before, when i had the entire post on the home page, my ads were not relevant.
i see that you limited it to only 3 posts. there's an adsense plugin that will allow you to limit the amount of adsense blocks while featuring more than 3 posts on the frontpage.