What can be the cause of my inner pages ranking higher than my home page?
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If you do a search for my own company name or products we sell the inner pages rank higher than the homepage and if you do a search for exact content from my home page my home page doesn't show in the results. My homepage shows when you do a site: search so not sure what is causing this.
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In Google Webmasters I currently don't have any messages showing from Google
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I'm seeing very little visible content on your home page. When I do a view source, I see an H2 and paragraph that are display:none. That's probably not helping you at all, and may be hurting you. Do you have any noticed about your site in Google Webmaster Tools?
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You have NO FREAKIN CONTENT! That why you don't rank. Also, you sent me a PM and I thought it was SPAM because the website was porn at 1st glance. I don't know if it's porn or not, but I didn't want any script to be loaded on my computer.
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I'm just going to sleep as you guys wake up, not sure I can sleep after seeing your page, though!
For a start, you have multiple H1 tags.
There should only be one H1
your sitemap looks OK
This appears in results:
<cite>sexylime.com/cu3er/CU3ER-config.xml</cite>
There isn't a lot of text.
Your front page seems to have no power at all.
It almost looks like it has been penalized - maybe people have complained about it. Maybe a lot of people did a search, found you, visited, went back to search and hit the "hide all results from sexylime.com" There are activists who do that.
I did the "redo the search with the hidden pages included" but that didn't show your page either.
Sorry, I am out of ideas - and I need to sleep.
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another question:
Do you have a sitemap?
If so, what does it say about the home page?
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yeah it's sexylime dot com
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Yes I did an exact search with quotes and it didn't show but some of my other pages showed. There weren't any links at the bottom about hidden pages. I don't have any of those tags in the code of the page. It doesn't have any bad links and the text isn't hidden. My site wasn't hacked and I have no messages in Google Webmasters. My site was last cached on March 12th.
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Deciph22
There are many things to check.
If you search for exact content that appears on your home page and it isn't in the results, then there is a problem.
Did you do an exact search, in quotes?
What happens if you go to the end of the results pages?
Is there a link that says redo the search with the hidden pages included?
If you click that, does your page show up then?
You said it shows up if you do a site: search, so it is in the index,
Have you inadvertently added no index, no follow or no cache tags to it?
Or inadvertently added it to the robots file?
Does it have any bad links in it?
Is the text you mentioned hidden?
Have you crawled it as google bot?
Do you deliver different text to crawlers?
Has your site been hacked?
Have you registered with Webmaster Tools?- are there any messages about it?
What was the date of the most recent cache copy of your site? - have you checked to see if that is ok?
That should keep you busy for a few minutes.
- are there any messages about it?
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Hi Deciph22, As you already know that page rank depends on the quality back links. It means that If the link we got is from well known site. reputated site , then it matters most.
It is most important that you got the links from other website pointing to your website is of do follow type.If you got the do follow back link for any of the individual page then it means, that inner page rank will be higher.
At the last I want to make clear to you that If google sees these condition again then it will results that inner page rank will be high because of most relevant data for that specific keyword as compared to home page.
Thanks
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Can you share your URL with us?
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It could be a matter of your home page 'leaking' authority/juice to those internal pages, depending on your internal link structure. We had a client once whose blog would show up stronger than their home page, landing pages, etc. We determined it was because every single page in their domain was linking to the blog, and that was the only page that was being linked that much. We did a bunch of nofollow (and canonical to reduce redundant pages) and the situation normalized.
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Yeah I have all the keywords and all the link building mainly goes to the homepage. When you search for my content on the homepage it doesn't even list my homepage in the results when it's the only page with that content. It seems like Google isn't reading the content on this page but my other pages they are.
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I'm thinking its something more as if you search the content I've written on my homepage it doesn't show in the search results. It almost seems like Google isn't reading the content on my homepage
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I get WAY more traffic from my landing pages than my home page. If your homepage is not ranking at all, do you have the keyword you are searching for at the beginning of the title tag? Do you have links pointing to that page? There are way too many factors that go into this.
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Here's a post about the wrong page ranking, which may help explain some of what is happening.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions
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