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Hi, thanks for this. I agree with you based on what I've read elsewhere. I have shared the link a few times but I guess it's not showing up.

Here it is again: https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/

if you google Yoast . Com / homepage - seo

thanks

Hi Don

thanks for replying. Article: https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/

lm thinking it's wrong too. We rank #1 for a local camper rental website- the homepage optimized for the core/head keywords and it's always the page at the top.

James

hi

Just read a Yoast article explaining that the homepage should never be optimized for a specific keyword and should only be optimized for its business or brand name.

i have a large site that I'd like to rank (or increase traffic for as I know people get irritated with that term now) for 'Campervan hire'. It has plenty of sub pages going after 'Campervan hire 'location'' for example.

it makes sense to me for the homepage keyword - my core keyword - to be 'Campervan hire' and for the homepage to be optimised for this. However, the article I've just read (https://yoast.com/homepage-seo/) suggests a separate page for this keyword.

What are your thoughts pls??

thanks

Great- thank you, I'm sure it was Joe Pulizzi's book 'Content Inc' that was leading me down the wrong path. It also states that you can use duplicate content (scraped from other sites) and I'm not sure that's right either.

Ok thank you - I get in now

Hi

I thought that if I wanted to rank a local site for the core Keyword, 'Landscaping Location' that variations of this keyword should be used on the same page. But I recently read that if I wanted to rank for:

Landscaping Location
Landscaping in Location
Landscaping Services in Location

that I should use separate page for each term. Is this correct? A small local website will probably only have a few pages and so making up pages solely to go after Keywords can't be right. But then would opportunities be missed?

Thanks for your help with this!!

Hi, This is an example but if I enter 'architect

This is an example but the same thing happens with most keywords - if I enter 'architect cornwall' into Google Planner it tells me there's 90 searches per month. If I enter this into SEMRUSH it tells me there's 320 searches per month.

Can anyone explain the difference here - and is one more accurate than the other? Better still is there tool that's more accurate than either of these?

I'm completely new to this by the way and the answer is probably obvious.

Thanks!