Wrong sitelinks & landing pages in Google
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I've recently launched a well-optimized website with good-content category landing pages and then I've added a blog to the website (as supporting content to the landing pages, the only links pointing to the blog are from the category landing pages)
What happened is that Google is now using the Blog pages as the site - sitelinks and also as the landing pages for most keywords
I only have inbound links to the reg. landing pages and none to the blog, how do I get Google to change that?
I know I can demote sitelink URL's in webmaster tools, but would that help me with getting the right sitelinks, it sure wont help much with the landing pages
Thanks
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I dont think Demoting links will be a good idea!
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Thanks, that sounds about right, do you recommend then demoting the sitelinks in WT?
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As per my experience it is the right way to solve your problem you can demote site link URL's in webmaster tools, because i have face that problem in my site, so i implement that thing in my site and it is working, now Google not taking that link as my site link so demoting URL is most preferable way to solve your problem.
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Joel, this happens to one of my client that few of his targeted land pages were not ranking and supporting pages were performing well instead of the main pages...
At that time there was no option to demote site links, so what i did is to get internal links from within the content to major pages and get some quality external links points to the major pages and boom... search engine gets it...
I guess in your thing you have to get more external links pointing to the major URL (off course if all other on-pages issues related to indexing are already fixed!)
Hope this helps!
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Thank you so much for the reply, but there is none of that I've tried everything and can't get to the bottom of it
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Hard to say without looking at the pages in question. Are the landing pages indexed?
Some ideas as to why this might be happening:
- the blog pages have better on page SEO than the landing pages - titles, descriptions etc.
- the blog has a sitemap listing the blog's pages, but not the landing pages
- internal links don't point to the landing pages
- some sort of page header problem on the landing pages but not the blog pages
- broken html on the landing pages, but not the blog pages
- rss based links back to the blog pages
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