Site Structure

  • Resolved deeveearr

    (@deeveearr)


    1 year, 9 months ago

    Hi guys,

    I’m having a problem with my site structure, and how Google (Bing is fine) perceives it.

    First there is the homepage, then a few pages such as ‘about’, ‘contact’, ‘product’, ‘areas served’ etc, all of which are parent pages, then there are a few child pages such as ‘types of product’ (four of them), blog sections (around four of them) and a couple of ‘landing pages’.

    Quite often, Google will bypass the homepage and choose to show the ‘areas served’ page, or the ‘about page’ instead, each of which appears half a page or so down the serps than the homepage does.

    So:

    Would the best idea be to make ALL the pages into child pages of the homepage, sort of hinting to Google that it should always be the homepage that takes priority?

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @deeveearr

    Thanks for reaching out about your site indexing.

    Google will bypass the homepage and choose to show the ‘areas served’ page, or the ‘about page’ instead

    Do you mean the homepage is not indexed at all?

    Thread Starter deeveearr

    (@deeveearr)

    Hi @maybellyne

    No, the homepage is indexed, but Google keeps getting it wrong by substituting random pages instead.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Thanks for confirming that the homepage is indexed; I understand it’s ranking lower than others such as ‘about’, ‘contact’, ‘product’, ‘areas served’.

    Please check out this help article for some suggestions – Homepage SEO: Does it exist?

    Thread Starter deeveearr

    (@deeveearr)

    @maybellyne that wasn’t the original question though:

    Would the best idea be to make ALL the pages into child pages of the homepage, sort of hinting to Google that it should always be the homepage that takes priority?

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    I do not know if the best idea to hint Google that your homepage takes priority is making all pages into child pages of the homepage.

    Your question is a bit outside the scope of the support we provide. Giving SEO advice, in most cases, requires a deep analysis of your site to provide accurate advice for your specific setup, even for what may seem to be a simple question.

    Thread Starter deeveearr

    (@deeveearr)

    Indeed.

    It’s rather silly doing a deep analysis of the website purely for the one search engine that seems to be thicker than the rest.

    Thread Starter deeveearr

    (@deeveearr)

    A rather extreme solution I know, but I found that it works.

    I went to the ‘advanced’ settings on the offending page, and changed

    ‘allow search engines to index this page?’ to NO.

    My homepage resurfaced after half a day.

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