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  • EcommerceSite
    EcommerceSite last edited by Mar 6, 2015, 1:46 PM

    When I do a site: search the homepage comes up second. Does this matter?

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    • Christy-Correll
      Christy-Correll Staff last edited by Apr 22, 2015, 7:31 PM Apr 22, 2015, 7:31 PM

      Hi there, just checking in do see if you have an update for us. 🙂

      Christy

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      • EcommerceSite
        EcommerceSite @DougRoberts last edited by Mar 27, 2015, 2:41 PM Mar 27, 2015, 2:41 PM

        http://germanhausbarn.com/ Here is the homepage. It is more informational then anything.

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        • Christy-Correll
          Christy-Correll Staff last edited by Mar 26, 2015, 8:01 PM Mar 26, 2015, 8:01 PM

          Sounds good. Let us know how things work out. 🙂

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          • EcommerceSite
            EcommerceSite @MattAntonino last edited by Mar 16, 2015, 7:25 PM Mar 16, 2015, 7:25 PM

            I am in the process of redoing our homepage. We actually do not have a lot of content on our homepage and virtually no keywords. That should be remedied in the next few weeks and we will see if that solves the problem.

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            • DougRoberts
              DougRoberts @EcommerceSite last edited by Mar 7, 2015, 11:56 AM Mar 7, 2015, 11:56 AM

              What's the purpose of the home page? Is it purely navigational? Does it have any unique content on it?

              Hard to assess whether there's a real problem or not and what that problem might be without taking a look at the site.

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              • MattAntonino
                MattAntonino last edited by Mar 7, 2015, 5:12 AM Mar 7, 2015, 5:12 AM

                We've come across this situation a number of times. I have a very strong feeling that your homepage has over optimised anchor text.  If you want to post or PM me the URL I can take a further look but the most common reason I see for this (over & over) is Panda (over optimisation, thin content, poor titles, incorrect canonicals, or anchor spam.)

                It can also depend on your site & keywords. If you have an seo company for instance and a page at yoursite.com/seo, that page may rank better for your domain if it also includes the word SEO.  Let me give an example because no matter how I write that, it's confusing.

                If your domain is ouragency.com and your /seo page comes up first, chances are it's something I mentioned above.

                However, if your domain is seoagency.com and your /seo page comes up first, it may just be that the /seo page is better optimised for the term.

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                • EcommerceSite
                  EcommerceSite @DougRoberts last edited by Mar 7, 2015, 12:22 AM Mar 7, 2015, 12:22 AM

                  It is just a basic site for a non-profit. Everything seems to be ok, I just thought it was weird. It looks like the homepage doesn't have an optimized enough title so I think that might be it.

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                  • DougRoberts
                    DougRoberts last edited by Mar 6, 2015, 10:29 PM Mar 6, 2015, 10:29 PM

                    I don't think it matters, but without knowing more about your site it's hard to say for certain.

                    See this article: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-site-command-ranking-12858.html

                    What's more important is that you have the right page getting visibility for the right keywords/topics so that you provide the best user experience and increase your chances of converting those visitors into customers/followers.

                    What page is coming up first? Can you make any guesses as to why?

                    What I have use the site: search for is to look at the top 10 pages and assess how well these reflect the products/services/topics for which the site wants to be associated with.

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                    • EcommerceSite
                      EcommerceSite @JVRudnick last edited by Mar 6, 2015, 2:32 PM Mar 6, 2015, 2:32 PM

                      It isn't a keyword search it is a site:search. I have a copy of a site audit and it says that the homepage should come up first, but it doesn't.

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                      • JVRudnick
                        JVRudnick last edited by Mar 6, 2015, 2:12 PM Mar 6, 2015, 2:12 PM

                        Could you provide URLs for that?

                        I also dont' quite follow you - say you're looking for "plumber in Taos" -- do you mean that your site comes up 2nd?
                        -- if so good!

                        Do you mean if you're searching for "Bills Plumbing Services" (your company name) and that comes up second?

                        • if so, then what comes up first?
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