Folks -
It seems to me that Google places more emphasis on a search result when it comes up as homepage rather than a random post or page.
Can anyone confirm this ? It seems like common sense. Personally, I've had good results ranking for my homepage. The compromise is the range of keywords that you rank for is typically narrow.
Having said this, I notice that my homepage typically get crawled less frequently than individual posts. I am even using the Wordpress sitemap plugin and have set the homepage crawl priority to 1. But still, Google will index my posts in like 20 minutes and take up to 1 week or more for the homepage.
I don't like this for two reasons:
1/ I don't want Google to think that my homepage content is stale.
2/ My link profile can increase dramatically if my homepage is only crawled every 10 days. I don't want Google to be like : WTF ? 345 new links ? Take this penalty buddy => Do you feel it ?
My questions are:
1/ How do make your homepage content dynamic and get the spiders coming back ?
2/ What are your experiences in ranking for your homepage ? Do you have any tips for me ?
I am Looking for some
SEO ballas to advise me.
Many Thanks,
-- Sebastien
PS: also willing to pay for advanced
SEO information.