Home page indexed but not ranking...interior pages with thin content outrank home page??
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I have a Joomla site with a home page that I can't get to rank for anything beyond the company name @ Google - the site works fine @ Bing and Yahoo. The interior pages will rank all day long but the home page never shows up in the results. I have checked the page code out in every tool that I know about and have had no luck....by all account it should be good to go...any thoughts/comments/help would be greatly appreciated.
The site is http://www.selectivedesigns.com
Thanks!
Greg
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Thanks Oleg! I added the cannonical tag here
Hopefully that works! Thanks for the input.
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Looks like this page is a duplicate and is hijacking the rankings (I searched for "Atlanta's Premier Landscape Design & Custom Pool Company"). Set a canonical link on the homepage and see if that helps your rankings.
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