: How can I get my homepage to be displayed in my SERP instead of inner pages? I have a website with couple of pages. In the home page I have fair amount of content with required amount of

@Heady270

The only thing that you need to do is get some links to your home page from other sites. You are ranked in the twenties now for your URL because you don't have enough reputation. It doesn't take many external links for Google to start recognizing your home page as the proper navigational result for searches for your domain name.

Once your homepage has a few links, it with automatically outrank your inner pages for branded searches. You still want your inner pages to rank for when somebody searches for something like "contact brand" or "service1 brand".

Some places that you can start with for links:


Other websites that you own
Friends and with websites, blogs, or personal homepages
Business directories
Your local town's website or local chamber of commerce
A facebook page and other social media

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@Samaraweera270

No, using rel=canonical in this way will not help you. If anything, search engines would probably penalize you because a canonical link is meant to point to the source of duplicate content. Since the pages on your site are not duplicates of the home page, using rel=canonical would be incorrect. See the Google webmaster support site article on using canonical URLs, and some useful tips from the Google webmaster central blog.

If such visitors to your site absolutely must go to the home page, one solution would be to redirect them based on the fact that they were referred from a search engine.

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