Why isn't Homepage ranking?

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I've optimised my homepage for a keyword, however it is nowhere to be seen in Google results. However, another random page on my site is showing in results for that keyword, a page that barely uses the keyword. Plus the homepage isn't showing for any other keywords either. The robots.txt - meta is all good.

Can anyone understand this?
#homepage #ranking
  • Profile picture of the author seekdefo
    It depends on Google which page it wants to show up for a keyword. Try pinging your site
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    First make sure if the home page is indexed well just by searching for your domain name. Also the result positions keeps changing on. To make sure, try some other time and you probably will get different results.
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    • Profile picture of the author writer88
      It totally depends on two things-1. what kind of SEO technique you have implemented for your home page!
      2. what is the age of your site?

      are you sure that you haven't overstuff your home page with keywords because the penguin update only likes natural link building method ...

      I think you should put a thought on it...
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  • Profile picture of the author HelgeSverre
    How old is your site?

    Google keeps your site in a sandbox for approximately 1 month if i recall correctly, within that time your site goes up and down randomly.
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  • Profile picture of the author awj888
    maybe you can build a backlink for the correct page -
    often google can rank multiple pages for the same keywords - you can give them a better idea which one is more relevant with a backlink
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  • Profile picture of the author dome
    PAGE : thats get juice, penalty, positive impact. so, your page (here homepage) flagged so its not ranking.

    To rank your homepage you must need proper navigation and good ON-Site SEO. if everything goes well your homepage will rank very soon.
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