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Raning First Page But Not as Intended

by App Developers
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Hey, I have a quick question. I have been building links to a home page on a typical website and as of yesterday was around 13th position in Google for a particular keyword. I have been building the links for a few months now.
This morning I found out that I finally made it to the first page of Google and with a nice number. BUT not with the home page of my website as I had intended but.....for a blog article I had written that sits on my website. I wrote the blog a few months ago and I was pretty sure it was indexed a long time ago. I didn't really build any back links to this blog article but did nice internal website linking and it has a nice keyword rich URL tile.

BUT, interesting enough the home page I have worked so hard building links to has disappeared from Google, for that particular keyword. At least I can't find it one the first five pages. Any thoughts?
#intended #page #raning
  • Profile picture of the author RichardF
    This is similar to what I've experienced on a few sites lately, though I've never had a relevant page to replace it. Meaning the right page would disappear completely from page 1, and my best ranking page would be something that's not relevant at all, ranking somewhere between 40 and 200. I have no idea what causes this, but I'm guessing the original page is getting penalized somehow for that keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    You have discovered PAGE RANK. Google ranks pages... yippee!

    So... why do people continue to try so hard to rank their home page which almost never sells anything. The money is from the interior pages where you pitch your offer.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulrigby
    Originally Posted by App Developers View Post

    Hey, I have a quick question. I have been building links to a home page on a typical website and as of yesterday was around 13th position in Google for a particular keyword. I have been building the links for a few months now.
    This morning I found out that I finally made it to the first page of Google and with a nice number. BUT not with the home page of my website as I had intended but.....for a blog article I had written that sits on my website. I wrote the blog a few months ago and I was pretty sure it was indexed a long time ago. I didn't really build any back links to this blog article but did nice internal website linking and it has a nice keyword rich URL tile.

    BUT, interesting enough the home page I have worked so hard building links to has disappeared from Google, for that particular keyword. At least I can't find it one the first five pages. Any thoughts?
    For which keyword you have worked and now ranked in search engines.?

    Can you show me your keyword that is on top of Google?
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    • Profile picture of the author App Developers
      Originally Posted by johancades View Post

      Hi,

      Did you change your meta title or description for home page? or is Google had cached your new title & description.
      No, I hadn't changed a thing. I was just building back links to the home page. I was not building back links to the page that is now ranking on first page for that particular keyword.

      I will now test this out again. I have a few more keywords that are close to the first page with a blog title and keywords just the same. I will see if the same thing happens again. Interesting but kind of weird. I am not sure how to continue. Do I keep building the back links to the home page?
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