I am not a minimalist in my home. But I am tidy. I certainly understand a home with too much stuff is claustrophobic.
When a house gets cluttered, often the advice is to clear one room at a time.
That’s good advice. For your home.
Sometimes folks worry their websites are “too cluttered” just because they have lots of pages.
But websites are another banana.
When a viewer comes to your website, he is seeing just one page. He or she isn’t seeing, say, a 4000-page website.
Clutter is not determined by the number of pages on a website.
However, individual pages may be cluttered, confusing, messy. In those cases, it’s important to tidy them up. Be ruthless. Strip out unnecessary items.
Sometimes the problem is cluttered and confusing Menu and SubMenu options. Rethink the logic of their organization and untangle them.
Again, just because a site has numerous pages, doesn’t mean there’s a problem.
In fact, it’s important not to delete pages if they bring any value to your website. This is because each page is like a fishing hook with bait in the form of keyword phrases. A unique keyword phrase just may bring a big catch to your site.
The Internet, like the ocean, is vast. So all the hooks and bait you can get out there, the better.
Easy Web Tip 359: No need to worry about a site with too many pages, as long as the pages have some value.
