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    • xcyte
      xcyte last edited by

      I'm in the process of having a site built using WP as the cms, and keeping SEO in mind while it's being produced.

      Because I'm experimenting with title/meta desc I'm checking rankings each day on whatsmyserp dot com. During development I noticed one day the ranking for websitename.com had disappeared and websitename.com/home-2 was ranking.

      I went into pages of the wp account and deleted the 2nd homepage that had been created for some reason, and that was over half a week ago now. /home-2 is still ranking even though it's non-existent and the actual homepage url isn't ranking at all.

      Any suggestions on what I should do/why this is happening? Thanks for any help

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      • YouON
        YouON last edited by

        Try with a simply 301 redirect /home-2 to yourdomain.ext 
        Without viewing your website it's hard to understand which problems has the original home compared to home-2.

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        • xcyte
          xcyte last edited by

          So is it because of a problem with the setup of the homepage? Would a 301 redirect mean that /home-2 is still ranking.. ideally I need to get it out of the results all together.

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