Your homepage is arguably the most important element of your website. In just a few minutes each, these six quick steps will rejuvenate your website homepage copy and get it working harder.

1. Split your paragraphs

Consider splitting any paragraph on your website homepage that’s more than three sentences. Anything longer than that becomes difficult to scan online.

Don’t be afraid to have a paragraph comprising of one sentence. It’s easy to scan and it’ll make a statement.

(Just don’t tell your English teacher).

2. Split your sentences

There’s a time and a place for long sentences – and it’s not on your website homepage. Any sentence that makes you draw breath when you read it aloud needs the chop.

3. Bold your keywords

But take it easy. The purpose is to make the website homepage copy easy to scan – not to overwhelm your readers.

4. Add sub-headings

Can you break your website homepage copy into smaller sections? If so, get on with it! Good sub-headings will give your reader an overview of the page without them needing to read a single word of the copy in the paragraphs.

5. Remove superfluous words

I remember shoving as many flowery words into my school essays as I could get away with. It’s a hard habit to break! Aside from strings of unnecessary adjectives, the usual suspects are words like any, that, like, very, really and a lot.

Hunt ‘em down and get rid of ‘em.

(See what I did there? The one sentence paragraph is powerful, isn’t it?)

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6. Clarify your call to action

You do have one don’t you?

Can you make it clearer? Is it too wordy? Is it in plain English? Leave nothing open to interpretation. The whole point of having a website is to encourage your readers to do whatever it is you want them to do, regardless of whether that’s making their way to your cash register with their credit card in hand, signing up for your email newsletter, or picking up their phone and asking you to come and fix their plumbing.

If you don’t have a call to action, then make it your priority to put one together, and ensure it’s as compelling as possible. If you need a hand with this, you might find this article on  making your website’s homepage work helpful.

Please share your own secrets for successful website homepage copy below. And feel free to make both your sentences and your paragraphs as long as you like.