How to make google only link to my home page

[David Tower]

Hi folks,

I'm hoping a web savvy person can help me here. I'm pretty sure there's a way to do this. My website is starting to get ranked but google is linking to one of my secondary pages rather than my home page.

Isn't there a way I can tell the search engines that all my secondary pages on my site should be linking to my home page in the search engine results pages?

Thanks

[Ned Carey]

I know you can tell Google not to index certain pages. But that won't help the home page only keep the other page from showing up.

I am not sure you want to fix this. It is good to have your other pages show up. That fact that an inside page ranks high helps the home page ranking.

It will depend on the search term. Lets say you have a website is about all real estate investing but you have a page specifically about land lording. It is normal for the page on land lording to show up ahead of the home page if someone is searching for land lording.

One thing you can do is make sure your home page is targeted for the keywords you want. (keywords = search terms~). If you know how to do it make sure your meta data is correct. If you use wordpress there are plugins for this.

Also make sure you are using your keywords frequently. It helps if Headings, titles etc. use the keywords.

Lastly there are sites that will analyze your site to tell you how search engine friendly they are. One was Website Grader but I think that is defunct now. Good luck - Ned