: How to make google show my home page instead of about or contact I have a wordpress website for my girlfriend, who is a photographer. It has a starting page, which is basically just a portfolio
I have a wordpress website for my girlfriend, who is a photographer. It has a starting page, which is basically just a portfolio filled with pictures. Unfortunately, when searching the website in google, google lists all other pages (that have text content, like about me, or contact) above the portfolio. Is there a way to make google list the start page instead, and show the other pages as subentries?
EDIT: This page is similar to mine, in the way that it doesn't have any text on it's homepage, just pictures: lenaheckl.de
Yet, it does show up very nicely in google:
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There are two main strategies to make the home page rank higher than its sub-pages: on-page SEO on off-page SEO.
Unless the search phrase you are targeting is competitive, just a little nudge to Google might get your homepage ranking.
On-Screen SEO
For on-screen SEO, you would add key textual content to the homepage, and perhaps do other things like add a hCard.
Off-Screen SEO
For off-screen SEO, you would leverage links from other pages to convince Google the home page is the authoritative page. You can do this with your internal linking, by putting your targeted keywords into the anchor text of the links to the home page.
You can also work to get other websites to link to the homepage, and aiming to get the targeted keywords in your anchor text. Some websites (like StackExchange) will allow you to have a link to your home page — and this will have some effect, if the links do not have the "nofollow" tag — whether they have nofollow varies by website.
One other technique you might try is putting a canonical URL tag on your about page that points to the home page URL. This could be useful if your home page has equivalent content to the about page, but represented in a less SEO-friendly way (e.g., inside graphics). You are basically saying, “These pages are equivalent, but please send users to this one.” If that’s not really true, then use this technique at your own risk — “tricking” Google is a dangerous game to play for SEO.
But ask yourself if Google has a point
If the information the user would want is on your about page, and not on your home page, shouldn’t you change that?
If you have no text on your home page, only images, then there is nothing for Google to index. You MUST have textual content of some sort. In your case, alt and title may work for the images but you should also take advantage of the <meta> description element containing a description of the page. Google might use that for indexing of the home page.
Search engines look for a relevant match at url, title tag, meta description tag, h1-h6 tags, body etc. In your current situation the search engine doesn't take your homepage as the best match for the search phrases you use. So you need to add some textual content to match these search phrases.
Add some headings and paragraphs of relevant to your search phrases textual content on your homepage. It may be placed below your graphic content if you wish your pictures go first.
Also you should always use title and meta description tags within <head>:
<title> Your title goes here </title>
<meta name="description" content=" Your description goes here ">
And make sure you use adequate alt and title attributes within your img tags for your images.
And, that goes without saying, all your internal pages should be linked to homepage.
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