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    • Bucky
      Bucky last edited by

      I have 4 pages for a single product

      Each of the pages link to the Main page for that product

      Google is indexing the secondary pages above my preferred landing page

      How do I fix this?

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      • Brian-M
        Brian-M last edited by

        Well that's just telling you that your secondary pages are better optimized for the keyword your looking at.  Just do more SEO for the main page. Build more links with anchor text containing your keyword to the home page and optimize the keywords, etc for the home page.

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        • mediabase
          mediabase last edited by

          Hi Bucky,First of all I want you to please check the crawling & Indexing of a web page.

          Google will index all of your pages that are not blocked by a robots.txt file, password, etc.

          I'll bet you had links from your home page to the other pages. That would be one reason why you are seeing other pages indexed.

          It sounds like you may have had some duplicate pages. You should address those if applicable.

          In order to get a specific page indexed please check this link:

          How to get a specific page indexed.

          I hope that your query had been solved.

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          • Bucky
            Bucky last edited by

            FYI  I am not a rookie.  No 101 responses please.

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            • KeriMorgret
              KeriMorgret last edited by

              Hi Bucky,

              Have you seen Rand's post on several things to do if the wrong page is ranking at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/wrong-page-ranking-in-the-results-6-common-causes-5-solutions?

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