Google won't recognise homepage, but other pages rank very high (muffin builder + seo problem?)
The website's url is kidsholidaytoys.com and the website was launched 6 months ago, yet it still struggles to rank for the search term "Kids Holiday Toys". The issue had our in house SEO expert tearing her hair out for the past 4 months, as we (the developers) have tried to work out if the problem is related to the code.
We have checked webmaster tools and there are no reported issues with the homepage. We have read about problems with BeTheme's built in SEO, so have tried turning that off completely in favour of Yoast, but it had no effect. Also, we have tried pressing the "Builder >> SEO" button in the homepage's content editor, with still no luck. The sitemap is correct.
We believe that google cannot 'see' the content on the homepage because BeTheme's built in muffin builder is putting the content so deep inside html elements that the search engines spider gives up. On the homepage, there are often >12 elements before you get to any relevant content.
Unfortunately, we are now at the point that if we cannot fix this problem in the next month we will have to redevelop the site without BeTheme and the muffin builder.
We really look forward to hearing your thoughts on this and thank you for your time considering this matter.
Laurence Pettitt and the rest of the team at VuOnline.
Comments
the problem you described above is completely unrelated to theme. And if your homepage does not rank well, you should contact with person who is responsible for SEO of your site because there is nothing we can do on our end.
P.S. We checked your site of course and it is visible for Google bots of course so the problem is somewhere else.
Thanks!
Thanks for understanding!