We are very excited to announce our latest theme, Simplicity. It’s a stunning Genesis child theme designed for photographers. It boasts a full width and height background slideshow on a minimal homepage. Individual pages continue the background beautification with a static background image. Its fully responsive design flows amazing when viewed on a desktop all the way to a small handheld device.
Simplicity is now available for all theme customers and will soon be rolled out to all hosting customers.
So, I’m curious about these home pages with nothing but an image and menu on some of the themes. Have you tested how this impacts on-page SEO as compared to the deeper home pages on themes like Ansel and Free Spirit, etc?
I’m using a few of the themes for vacation rental owners/managers and SEO/search rankings are super important to them.
There’s no SEO advantage of having a text-less homepage. However, this is a design style that is quite popular among photographers. So it becomes a tradeoff as to what’s more important… a visual impact of the homepage or SEO of the homepage. In reality, focusing SEO efforts on the homepage might not be the best choice for a business. But every business have different priorities.