Does anyone know why my Home page isn't visible in search terms?

[Michael.Constable]

If I type in my meta description for my homepage in google search or any of my keywords only my inner pages are returned in the results. I have a PR3 on the homepage so I don't think google is blocking my site and all my inner pages seem to show up.

[Michael.Constable]

Forgot to include my URL see www.filmcellcostumeideas.co.uk

[Dan-Petrovic]

http://www.filmcellcostumeideas.com/ is fighting against http://www.filmcellcostumeideas.co.uk/ in SERPS.

Also seeing some funny URLs like: http://www.filmcellcostumeideas.com/%3C?php%2520echo%2520zen_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US)%3B%2520%3F%253E

This is just the beginning of potential problems.

Do you run .com and .co.uk on purpose? (e.g. for different target markets)

[IM_Learner]

Probably, Google is finding more relevant content in the inner pages than on the home page. Remove unnecessary meta tags and rework on the content part

[Dan-Petrovic]

That is not the problem.

Simple search for a piece of on-page content reveals that Google chooses .com as the content originator. Again in the results the page has problematic URL. Perhaps it's a redirect gone wrong but this could be solved simply by canonicalisation or 301 redirection.

This is in case Mick does not need both websites online. If he does there is still a solution but it would involve introducing geo specific signals to Google and setting preference in Google Webmaster Tools (among other things). Diversification of content would take time and may not be feasible in all cases.

[IM_Learner]

I agree Dejan. You are right!

[firstconversion]

Works for me: set each one's geography in webmaster tools and put a UK & US address on each footer. Then add a bit of geographic linkbuilding

Great idea this week from TNW conference: set html lang="en-US" on the US version

(maybe also check your English language usage in line with this)

[Michael.Constable]

Thanks, our web company have set this up as a redirect the main website is .co.uk the .com should be redirected to this. You said that this is just the begining of potential problems is there more to it than just the redirect being problematic?