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        • EcommerceSite
          EcommerceSite last edited by

          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

            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

              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

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

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                • EcommerceSite
                  EcommerceSite @MattAntonino last edited by

                  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 @EcommerceSite last edited by

                    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

                      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 @DougRoberts last edited by

                        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

                          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 @JVRudnick last edited by

                            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 last edited by

                              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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