Google - not linking to my homepage, but a sub-page within!

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Afternoon all,

I am having ongoing problems with google linking to somewhere other than my homepage as its primary search result.

I am #2 result under the search term "preston wedding photographer" - which is exactly what I wanted. However, the actual link takes you to my to a search within my blog for "preston wedding photographer" rather than my homepage!

Monitoring my google analytics traffic, I am getting a lot of traffic straight to my blog and bouncing from there, rather than going to my homepage.

The weird thing is... every now and then (maybe every other day) Google will link to my homepage, then the next day it will be back to the blog!

Obviously this is doing my head in!

Could anyone suggest why this might be happening, and how I could fix it?
 
The simple fact that wedding, photogrpahy, preston .. are metnioned so many times ijn your blog then the spider is going to list it higher..

yrs since I did any SEO but thats got to be it.. your content on the blog is more SE friendly than your page :)

you can tell a spider not to look at your blog.. but then you will be relying on your front page to make it to the top of google which might not..
 
to be honest if traffic is going to your site who cares which page it lands on

Making your blog invisible to bots is not a good idea unless you also boost the sEO of your front page, because all you'll succeed in doing is losing traffic (who may go to your competitors instead )
 
As you both suggested might happen, after stopping Google indexing my blog.. my website has slipped to position 7 for the same search term - so Ive gone from 2nd place to 7th.

I have now re-indexed my blog and am straight back into 2nd position...however with the same problem that my blog is the link it takes you to!

If I remove a lot of keywords from my blog will Google then default to my homepage, and also keep me in 2nd position - any suggestions?

Cheers
 
http://www.nickenglishphotography.com/robots.txt

Looks OK



But I think you need to add:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"/>

To your homepage source code, this tells search engines that it's ok to index that page and follow all links from it.

We had this issue at work after having a new website designed, the above put us back to the number one spot on Google results within 3 weeks of spotting it's absence.

It's a strange one because as I understand it, the default value when this is missing will allow indexing, but as I couldn't get deep enough into our website (basic wordpress access), I can only assume there was some rogue code causing trouble. But then the site designer was also trying to squeeze an additional £500 out of us for SEO work and might have put some code in to stop us doing it ourselves.... The web design equivalent of a car manufacturer using a torx bolt on your sump plug.
 
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Lyonspride said:
But I think you need to add:

<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"/>

To your homepage source code, this tells search engines that it's ok to index that page and follow all links from it.
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It's there but at line 466, should be at the top in the <head> section, maybe this is why Google is not indexing the page
 
Jez2011 said:
It's there but at line 466, should be at the top in the <head> section, maybe this is why Google is not indexing the page
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HAHA correct . INFORMATION goes in the HEAD .. CONTENT in the BODY :)
 
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