My Homepage not showing in SERPs/Google

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Hello everybody,

I've been an internet marketer for quite a while now and am running into an issue that I haven't had before. I searched the forum but couldn't find an answer. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

The issue is that when I search for my domain name without the .com at the end my homepage is nowhere to be found (outside the top 100 results and perhaps not even showing at all.) Mydomain.com/blog shows, facebook, twitter, youtube, webstat sites, etc. and even some of my category pages (mydomain.com/category).

It is an eCommerce site built on Magento and is about 6 months old. I've even been building links directly to the homepage url. I'm up to about 500 visitors in the past 30 days, avg time on site of 5:33, and a 34.68% bounce rate. I've done a good title tag with my domain in it as well as a meta description. I have a homepage slider, and 3 images under the slider going to my most popular categories but no text on the page (like a paragraph which I've debated on adding) just selectable text on the 5 slides.

Any ideas on how to get my homepage to show? Is there something going on with Magento that I need to know about?

Thanks in advance,

Mike
#search engine optimization #homepage #serps or google #showing
  • It may be that your home page is given lower ranking.. copy content "one para graph ) from your home page and put in Google search with "" and find if it is indexed or not.
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    • I did this and another one of my domains showed up instead of the actual domain.

      I think I may also have another detail that is causing this for me. I have this site on a shared hosting, we'll call it DomainA.com (the one I'm having trouble getting the homepage to rank.) DomainA.com used to be an addon domain. DomainB.com was the main domain on the account. Since DomainA is an eCommerce site it also needs an SSL certificate and had to become the main domain and get a unique IP so I did all that, well, the hosting tech support moved everything around for me.

      I started noticing in analytics right after the move that some of the terms from DomainB.com were showing up in the Google Analytics search terms reports that were from DomainA. I then typed DomainB.com in and sure enough, the guys at the hosting company had set that domain up to redirect to DomainA.com, and that way it stayed for about 3 months. It ticked me off when I found out because DomainA is in a completely different industry than DomainB.com and I have no clue why they did the redirect and why they didn't tell me (my fault though for not checking.) DomainA is a crappy site and never made any money so about a week ago I unassigned it from my site and it no longer redirects to DomainA.com. The same day that I unassigned it from my cPanel I also submitted DomainB.com to Google Webmaster tools so that Google will now see that it is a parked domain.

      Now just a few minutes ago I searched for part of the homepage text from a slider in google inside of quotes and it shows one result, with DomainB.com as the site (the one that I unassigned!)

      Should this go away now that I've unassigned that domain and it is no longer redirecting? Is there something else with the shared hosting that I need to fix? :confused:

      In my webmaster tools for DomainB it still shows a thumbnail of DomainA... Do I need to just wait a while and let Google notice the change?
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  • Yup it might be due to lower ranking
  • Really often I get my articles rank higher than my homepage, because I prefer building backlinks to my article page NOT my home-page!
  • do link popularity as much as you can with natural link building process, make social media profiles.
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