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Change SEO focus from homepage to other page on the domain
Hi Roderick, From experience, this is quite hard to shake a keyword off a homepage and onto another that isn't ranking without physically removing that keyword the homepage - which comes with great risk. I wouldn't advise doing that on it's own, as it won't necessarily mean that your new page (although more relevant for that term) will start ranking in its place - it may just result in you not ranking at all. Your homepage will naturally have a higher PA than the sub-page with more links built to it and in Google's eyes, may look more relevant. You'll need to make sure that you cover the topic from all angles to tell Google that the sub-page is more relevant for that term. For example, using internal linking with that anchor text throughout your site going to that page and not the homepage. You'll then need to back this up with external links. Use Moz's backlink anchor text checker to pull all external links that have been built that go to the homepage and contact them to ask them to change it to the more relevant page. As to how long it can take is a 'how long is a piece of string' question. It depends how quickly you can make the above changes and how long it takes Google to recrawl any other links. I hope that gives you a good start for what you can do to take action. Kelly
On-Page / Site Optimization | | Kelly_Edwards0 -
Google shows date in the SERPS for the homepage
We've took the date out of the code. I think it might have an indirect effect on the ranking, but off course we're also focussing on content and authority. Thanks for the reply
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Heers0 -
Everything seems right, but the rankings are poor
There are no Google penalties This is a little awkward to be sure of Roderick as there are manual and algorithmic penalties, the latter you won't be notified about. Can you tell me what you used to build the profile of backlinks to disavow? Based on what you say, this is where I would start looking. -Andy
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | Andy.Drinkwater0