Google is showing About Us page and not Homepage

I m seeing it for the first time...

[kamran mohammed]

Hi everybody at webmasterworld

This forum has really helped me a lot and here i m back with the same hope.

My problem is ..

When i m searching with my domain name just domain name without www and .com in the google to see how many pages r indexed .....i see my About US page on top in SERP's and not my homepage...wel my problem is not that big but i m curious to know what could be this...i m seeing it for the 1st time...

i wonder if any one here in WebmasterWorld have seen this kind of a thing earlier

Regards,

KaMran

[edited by: ciml at 2:05 pm (utc) on Dec. 16, 2004]
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[Stefan]

I've found that when you use that kind of method to look for listed pages, etc, it doesn't necessarily prioritize things as it would in actual serps. Using site:www.example.com is wonky that way too. I don't know why, maybe it's just a Google quirk. Probably nothing to worry about, though, if the home page shows where it should in the serps on the kw's you're aiming for.

<edit>Sorry, man. Major edit. Didn't read your post carefully enough.</edit>

[DerekH]

Yes - if you ask Google about your site alone (for example using the allinurl:#*$!x command) you won't get a ranked list of results...

On one of my sites, an allinurl: command frequently puts URL only (not yet indexed) pages about real indexed content.

Just don't infer anything from the order of the listings, it's the number of entries in the listings that matter...
DerekH

[kamran mohammed]

Hi everybody...

The listing of about us page in SERP's and no homepage....
someone told me that....in my about us page the domain name appears a bit more compared to homepage....

so that's the reason Googls is giving more weightage to about us page and not the homepage...

Please correct me..if i m wrong....
i just want to confirm it with others too...

Regards,

KaMran

[Stefan]

Sounds right. You could have on-page factors, like kw density etc, that could do that, and also internal linking could be responsible. Have a good look at those two pages, and all your internal linking, and see if you can tweak things to move your index.htm up compared to your "About us" page.

Also, check to see that you don't have incoming links going to two versions of your home page, in the form of www.example.com and example.com. If so, do some work on the .htaccess to steer everything to one version.

[kamran mohammed]

Thanxs a lot Stefan...

I'l check all those things..

KaMran..

[devitnow]

It's common for me to see where a site's 'about us' page or 'contact' page does better than there homepage. Often times it's because the 'about us' page has better text copy.

If you're homepage has los of images and very little text content that might be it.