Why won't my site's homepage index in search engines?

[danielleB]

I've run out of places to look for this answer, so I hope that someone here can help. A search for my site MRC PONTIAC will return links to inside content pages and posts, but never to the homepage. I wonder if this is a WordPress issue or a theme issue. I thought it may have something to do with the fact that the homepage is static, so I added featured content in the middle part of the site (via widget) yesterday, but I suspect that isn't it.

This site's blog and content pages are updated frequently, and I get good Yoast SEO results.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

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Danielle

http://www.mrcpontiac.qc.ca

[danielleB]

I think I may have found the solution, but of course, can't be sure until search engines crawl my site again.

I checked my theme's reading settings and found that it was set to display the latest post, when in fact, my site's homepage is a static page. I changed that, then went to the page in question to find that the title doesn't mention the site's name, which gave it a bogus URL, and the SEO wasn't done on the page, no description, etc.

I figure this could explain why the homepage URL never comes up in search engines. Or, not.

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Danielle

[danielleB]

Forget my 'solution'. It didn't work. I did check all my theme settings and everything appears to be as it should. There doesn't seem to be an obvious solution. I did a lot of research on line, but have still to figure out what the problem is.

If anyone can help, it will be appreciated.

http://www.mrcpontiac.qc.ca

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Danielle

[royj]

Probably because the Google algorithm thinks other pages on your site are more relevant for the term MRC PONTIAC personally I wouldn't worry about it if a user lands on your site and wants more information from you they will probably take a look at your homepage

[TRJ]

Did you check robots.txt?

[danielleB]

TRJ, robots.txt? Is this a file that should exist on my server? If so, can you point me to it? I checked, but couldn't find it.

I did a free online SEO check and it came back pretty good except that apparently my URL is not search engine friendly... could it be the .qc.ca extension?

My homepage consists of a static page with widget areas feeding links to latest posts and other static pages. Could the lack of actual content with H1 tags on the front page be the reason why search engines aren't picking it up? I can't think of anything else since the site is extremely relevant, gets good traffic (mostly through advertising or referrals from Facebook and Twitter and other local media), and gets updated often (at least once a week).

I'm getting loads of comments or complains from my colleagues and clients about the fact that the link to the homepage doesn't come up in searches Since the static homepage with widgets is typical of Genesis, I didn't expect mine to be an isolated case.

I'm looking for a fix or workaround solution.

Danielle

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Danielle

[Coffee]

Hi Danielle!

How did you manage to index your homepage? I find it on google.
Thank you!

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