Google ranking wrong page

[Atomicx]

I have a client where google is ranking the homepage for a term that I want a specific landing page to rank for. The landing page is filled with great keyword focused content, gets a perfect score on the moz keyword target grader.  And the home page is not even about the keyword it is ranking for.

Any advice on how to get google to stop ranking the wrong page?

[KarlBantleman]

The page may have been penalised, is it over-optimised or have too many keyword rich anchor texts pointing to it? If let me know the website and pages, I can have a look a bit deeper into the issue.

[TranslateMediaLtd]

Karl is right. It would be over-optimised. But most likely is that the homepage has much greater page authority than this other page which is why Google has decided to rank it instead.

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Noah,

As you've chosen 'local website optimization' as one of the categories for your question, I wanted to ask if what you're talking about here is a local or an organic ranking. Is there some chance that the landing page is a city landing page on the website and does the Google+ Local listing link to this city landing page or to the homepage of the website? It would be good if you could provide some further details as it will help you get better guesses at the cause from the community.