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Hi Santiago, I would echo Dana on this with a rel="canonical".  Like yourself, we also have a site which has a non root home page which has caused similar problems.  I'm always a little fearful of asking Google to remove a URL from the index, hence it's important that you do something like a rel="canonical".  If you're anything like you 301'ing a page such as this could cause some tech issues on a wider scale.  If you're link building you need to ensure you sort it a.s.a.p., not just for your own link building efforts but to avoid natural link building from others wanting to link to your site and choosing the wrong duplicate URL.  Diluted link juice is so frustrating. Hope this helps. Dawn

"I would have thought our home page would have at least outranked an internal page." A site's home page is designed to pull in traffic for those who want the general idea of the company / website, while the inner pages offer more optimized content. For example, when I search Google.com for "auto insurance", the first result is http://www.allstate.com/auto-insurance.aspx rather then the allstate.com home page. Ideally, each page targets a single keyword. Your site is not based on a brand but rather keywords. The keywords you have chosen are "passports and visas". That is a particular keyword phrase. A quick glance at your home page shows it is not optimized. A few points: 1. Your domain name is "passports and visas" but you are trying to rank the home page for "expedite us passport". If you were trying to rank your home page as #1 for "expedite us passport" with a keyword strategy, you would want expediteuspassport.com. To be clear, I am not recommending that approach but rather following the approach you have chosen to its logical conclusion. 2. If you wish your home page to rank high for "expedite us passport" then your ideal title would be along the lines of "Expedite US Passport". Instead you have a title of "Expedite US Passport Service & Travel Visa Service" 3. You mentioned one of your inner pages outranks the home page for the term. Well, the inner page title is "Expedite Passport Service : Fast New Passport Renewal". The breadcrumbs show the page as "Expedite US Passport Services". You are cannibalizing your own SEO by having multiple pages compete against each other for similar terms. In summary, you either need to invest some time learning SEO or hire a professional. If this is a site you are starting and are on a limited budget, you likely have more time then money in which case you can start with the Beginner's Guide to SEO. If this is an established business then I would recommend seeking professional assistance.

I have a site that the title tag is too long and the title is simply the name of the site (I think they get it from ODP, not sure) Now if you believe that it is the ODP that is causing the trouble, you can add this Meta tag in the section of the pages - However, if this has not been the case, it could be that the links that have been built are not in line with the existing title. And sometimes, Google changes the title itself if it feels that the title is not well optimized – http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2012/01/better-page-titles-in-search-results.html https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PierreFar/posts/62V16LPwzKv