My Website's Home Page is Missing on Google SERP

[ugorayan]

Hi All,

I have a WordPress website which has about 10-12 pages in total.

When I search for the brand name on Google Search, the home page URL isn't appearing on the result pages while the rest of the pages are appearing.

There're no issues with the canonicalization or meta titles/descriptions as such.

What could possibly the reason behind this aberration?

Looking forward to your advice!

Cheers

[dhananjay.kumar1]

Try Adding Your website name in Title of Home Page along with other keyword. Either you can start your Title with Your website name or you can end up with the same. one of my client was facing the same issue. It worked well for them.

[NickW816]

I would make sure your homepage is in Google's index first by searching "site:yourwebsite.com". If it is indexed, then work on building some internal and external links to it, making sure your Google My Business is linked to it, and then putting your brand name somewhere in the Meta Title and Meta Description of the homepage. This should help your homepage rank more for brand name searches.

[WebMarkets]

I've had a similar problem years ago. Check to see if that page has a no-crawl or no-follow designation in your CMS. Hop on the page and hit a control+U, then find "follow".

Look for this: name="robots" content="INDEX,FOLLOW" />