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My blog is showing in search results instead of my homepage and this is fine, but less than ideal. Any idea on how I can fix this?

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ChrisClever last edited by

My blog is showing in search results instead of my homepage and this is fine, but less than ideal. Any idea on how I can fix this?
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DiamondJewelryEmpire last edited by

Try using proper anchor text for your home page.
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KeriMorgret last edited by

Hi Scott,

Rand wrote a good post about diagnosing why the "wrong" page may be showing up in the search results. This may be a good place to start investigating. http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions
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