Google displaying the homepage instead of the landing page
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I have a landing page that was ranking before for web design philippines its http://www.myoptimind.com/web-design-philippines
Early this year, we dropped our rank and google displayed our homepage http://www.myoptimind.com
When i search for "web design company philippines", i rank. however, for "web design philippines" I am on page 2.
When I try "web design philippines" site:myoptimind.com it shows the landing page as the 2nd result. Last week, we tried to change the content of the page to reflect content that is more related to the keyword and moved the old content to http://www.myoptimind.com/web-design-services-philippines. We also changed the title of the homepage from Web Design Philippines | SEO Company Philippines to Web Design & SEO Company Philippines
Still nothing has changed. I just wanted it to show the landing page instead of the root domain. Any idea how this can be solved?
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Yes your landing page most likely does not have as many backlinks as your homepage.
I think you would have to get some powerful back links going to your landing page ideally you would use interlinking from your more powerful pages to your relevant pages that lack links.
If you are fooling around with the content of your website trying to get one page to rank over another
https://marketing.grader.com/report/www.myoptimind.com/overall
Dynamic URLs were found on the page.
There is a problem with your site is not a responsive website at all it will not fare well on mobile devices.
The size of the landing page is over 3 MB making it unfortunately very slow as well.
I do not know the speed of your site in the Philippines however you can use a program like this webspeedtest.org
Host your site from a server that is close to your target market. If your server is far away for good reason use a CDN and optimize it.
Here is a hosting company in or near the Philippines
your site loads in 9 seconds out of Argentina and the second pass when it should be compressed and cash it runs 8 seconds
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/140623_3C_681/
Load TimeFirst ByteStart RenderDOM ElementsTimeRequestsBytes InTimeRequestsBytes InFirst
View 9.928s 1.296s 0.000s 4649.928s 781,518 KB 16.225s 1161,691 KB
Repeat
View 8.671s 1.150s 0.000s 4648.671s 781,596 KB 14.808s 1171,767 KB
fix this by optimizing your site
http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/
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