Home Page Not showing for Main Keyphrse
It is indexed because it shows up on the first page of Google for Homemade Soy Candles, but that is not my target phrase! Now, I found a few days ago that my next pages, like learnhowtomakesoycandles.com/page/2 and also /page/3 were ranking for my target phrase, so I thought maybe Google was seeing duplicate title tags and penalizing my home page and so I nofollow/noindexed those extra pages and disallowed them in Webmaster tools.
This is so frustrating and I feel like there must be something I'm not seeing that needs to be changed. It just doesn't make sense that ALL of my other pages would be ranking for that phrase(even though that's not their target phrase), but not my home page.
I never used to have a problem ranking pages when it was just my html site(I made a wordpress site a few months ago and redirected my homemade candle creations site to the learnhowtomakesoycandles wordpress site). I do know that after the google updates recently, I dropped out of the top for Homemade Candles (which was not my keyphrase, but it did get me lots of traffic for awhile!).
I am, however, indexed in Bing and Yahoo for how to make soy candles
So then I got the bright idea (not sure how bright it was yet) to stop the 301 redirect of homemade-candle-creations.com and just keep it as a separate site since there is not duplicate content, and just put a link on that site pointing to my learnhowtomakesoycandles.com site, which is probably what I should have done in the first place.
Anyway, I'm wondering with all the changes I've been making, maybe I royally messed something up with Google! Any ideas??? :confused:
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