Guide

What to put on a personal website

A personal website answers three questions for a stranger: who you are, what you do, and how to reach you. Everything else on it is there to make those answers believable. Here is what to include, in the order visitors look for it.

Start with one sentence about what you do

The top of the Home page should say, in plain words, what you do and for whom. “Family therapist in Haifa” tells a visitor more than “Helping people grow”. People decide quickly whether they are in the right place, so the first line has to settle it.

An About section with facts, not adjectives

Say where you work, what you have done and how you work. Names, places, dates and numbers carry more weight than “passionate” or “experienced”. If a fact is already public somewhere, such as a degree, a role or a talk, it belongs here.

Show the work

Choose three to six examples: projects, clients you are allowed to name, articles, photos, talks. Give each one line on what it was and what came of it. A short list with context reads better than a long list without it.

Make the next step obvious

Decide what you want a visitor to do: get in touch, book a call, read your writing or see your CV. Put that one action at the top of the page and again at the end. An email address, a form or a booking link all work; offering all three with no first choice makes people hesitate.

Leave out what you cannot back up

Testimonials need a real person’s words and their permission. Client logos need permission too. A missing section is better than one filled with guesses, and nobody misses a page that was never there.

Checklist

Before you publish

  • One sentence that says what you do and for whom
  • A photo of you, or of your work
  • An About section with places, roles and dates
  • Three to six examples of your work, each with a line of context
  • One main action, at the top and at the end
  • A way to reach you that you actually check
  • No testimonial or logo you lack permission to use

How GenLP handles this step

GenLP looks up what is already public about you, such as your own site, your LinkedIn or your Instagram, shows you what it found and asks “Is this you?” before it writes. It plans the pages from what it found and from what you want visitors to do, and it leaves out pages such as Testimonials or Work when it finds nothing to put on them. You review every page before anything is public.

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