Google is indexing the wrong pages

[weddingphotojournalist]

I have been having problems with Google indexing my website since mid May. I haven't made any changes to my website which is wordpress. I have a page with the title 'Peterborough Cathedral wedding', I search Google for 'wedding Peteborough Cathedral', this is not a competitive search phrase and I'd expect to find my blog post on page one. Instead, half way down page 4 I find Google has indexed www.weddingphotojournalist.co.uk/blog with the title 'wedding photojournalist | Portfolio', what google has indexed is a link to the blog post and not the blog post itself.  I repeated this for several other blog posts and keywords and found similar results, most of which don't make any sense at all -

A search for 'Menorca wedding photography' used to bring up one of my posts at the top of page one. Now it brings up a post titled 'La Mare wedding photography Jersey" which happens to have a link to the Menorca post at the bottom of the page.

A search for 'Broadoaks country house weddng photography' brings up 'weddingphotojournalist | portfolio' which has a link to the Broadoaks post.  a search for 'Blake Hall wedding photography' does exactly the same.  In this case Google is linking to www.weddingphotojournalist.blog again, this is a page of recent blog posts.

Could this be a problem with my sitemap? Or the Yoast SEO plugin? or a problem with my wordpress theme? Or is Google just a bit confused?

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi,

It sounds to me that some internal linking and no-indexing Tag pages could help with this.

Just doing a very quick scan of the site, I am seeing 439 pages that Google can crawl - 210 of those pages are Tag pages. These tend to fire Google off in all directions and serve no good SEO purpose. However, some like this, but I have seen them cause more problems than doing good.

If the opportunity arises, talk about related blog posts and then link to it - you would be surprised just what this can do for you.

-Andy

[alrockn]

Looks like Google doesn't trust your site enough to offer the pages you think are logical as results for the query.  I'd say G Bot isn't confident about your content, and is triggering an algo filter.  True, internal links may be causing the confusion, but I'd also suggest checking your external link profile to make sure relevant sites are leading G Bot back to your blog.