How Often Do You Makeover Your Website?

[Justin]

Hey Everyone,
How many of you go over, update and make changes or basically give your website a makeover? I'm not just talking content I'm talking how it looks, the amount of content on pages and just giving your page New things such as themes and giving it a fresh look.

I made some significant changes to my own page such as moving the blog post notifications box to the front of the page, placed social media links in more distinct and sufficient spots, totally re-designed my interviews page, among other things. I felt it was necessary as it helped me condense my site and make it more presentable and hopefully others will enjoy.

But yeah, has anyone ever made over their site?

[W.]

Made over? Probably not. I am seriously invested into sloth here but I fiddle all the time,

[Mary]

I do it all the time, like at least once a week. I can never be happy with my theme and I think my content is boring. I suspect my readers do also. I know I'm a writer but really, I just want to write my stories. This blogging think is not comfortable for me. Any suggestions?

[Martin]

I add content almost daily. A full revamp happens maybe annually.

[Pavan]

Since I have had my bog I have not changed it at all, I might soon when I know what I want it to look like.
I am not working on posting three to four times a weeks, about my book, new books coming. Now I think I might start doing some interviews on my blog to make it more interesting.

[[deleted user]]

I constantly tweak it, add something here and there, but no makeovers.

[[deleted user]]

A lot less than I should. Reminds me, need to update as soon as I finish a project for a customer.

[Lisa]

Ken wrote: "I constantly tweak it, add something here and there, but no makeovers."

I'm with Ken. I guess maybe mine is too new yet to consider a revamp, but I am constantly updating and adding things, tweaking things. I admit to blatantly stalking all my favourite authors and getting ideas of how to set up my website (which I am doing myself on wordpress) from their professionally developed ones.

[[deleted user]]

Dang it! Now I gotta go update my website!

[T.R.]

I usually just leave my site the way it is for months/years at a time, but I did completely overhaul my website's look about 2-3 months ago because I didn't like the colors on the old one. Not much change to the content though.

[[deleted user]]

I updated mine this afternoon!

[Christina]

I only have a blog and I've changed the header and layout three times in as many years, so I guess I'm annual by accident. ;)

[Michael]

I did a minor tweak to my site a couple of months ago, just added a couple of pictures and changed the arrangement of some buttons. Prior to that, the only time I made any changes was to add the books as they were published.

[[deleted user]]

I understand that the search engines gauge relevance based on how often and how much the content of your site changes.

[Riley, Viking Extraordinaire]

I'm too lazy to do that. I might change the theme again, though I don't know when. Need to start taking pics for my posts, I hear images get way more clicks...I hardly ever put images up.

[[deleted user]]

What the webcrawlers are looking for is content change, ie...words. They index your site's relevance by the words on your site and how often it is updated.

[Melissa]

Considering what a headache putting my sites together were to begin with, I try not to fiddle with them too much unless I feel its necessary or I finally figured out how to add an something. I was attempted to find a new background for my blog. Biggest mistake ever. Not only did I go back to my original background, but I had to redo a lot of things that shouldn't have been undone. I was just trying to be creative, you dang blog!

[Justin]

I think I'm about complete with my makeover for my website. I have re-done all the pages and they all look solid. I believe it appeals to what people want to see when they go on my site and the things I believe they will be interested in. Also I made social media links more presentable and easy to access.
All in all it was very productive.