A blog’s homepage will list or display all articles or blog posts that have been published on said site. The front page will usually show a preview of an article with a read more link right below said snippet.
Exactly what is so important and useful about this kind of link? Why would you want all your articles to have this feature?
Pique people’s interests with your article preview
The post preview provides a teaser to your article. It helps to pique people’s interest and curiosity while the read more link located right below the teaser encourages people to view or check out the entire post in question.Read more link encourages people to view the entire article
If your readers or visitors can see the entirety of your articles on your blog homepage already, then what reason would they have to go to the page where your article is?They don’t need to do that anymore since they can already see and read your entire post straight from your site’s front page. This is why having a read more link is important. This gives people a reason to check out your article if they want to find out more.
Read more link keeps your homepage organized
Furthermore, this feature is useful in cutting or truncating articles that are too long. Instead of having your really long articles show up on the homepage, you can cut these articles by using a read more link.This prevents people from having to scroll down endlessly on your homepage. It also stops your front page from looking too cluttered and disorganized.
*Notes:
- Image with added text was modified by Freya Yuki (CC:BY-SA) based on the image by hayashinomura (CC:BY-SA) from deviantArt
- Open book in the image is meant to symbolize the read more link
- This was previously published elsewhere
