Optimize main page for two words

Optimization

[Eriklange7]

Ok......I have a question. My site went live in Mid-April, and I have not seen pages other than my home page and a few others in the google index. Would be a bad idea to optimize my home page for my most important keyword, and seeing that googlebot visits my homepage every few days, will pick this up and rank me pretty highly! Would this be OK until all of my other pages get in there...the ones that are actually optimized for my important words? ANy advice would be great! Thanks.

p.cs. I know I am trying to rush things, but I figure I might as well play and see what I can dig up until the pages are actually up there!

[takagi]

Sure, optimizing for the other keywords should help for now. But maybe there is another reason only few sub pages made it to the index. Are the missing pages dynamic pages (with a question mark and 1 or more parameters in the URL), do you use JavaScript or so to link to the sub pages? Do you have a site map?

[rfgdxm1]

Why on Earth isn't your home page already optimized for these 2 most important words? Usually the home page has the most inbound links, and hence the highest PR. Thus optimizing this for the most important keyword or 2 is the way to go. It is when you get into the less important keywords you want to optimize the internal pages for those, because you can't optimize one page for a lot of different keywords.

[netnerd]

I agree 110% with rfgdxm1.

Its the norm to optimise your top level domain for the most popular (and normally more competitive) keywords as a TLD gets a typcially higher position in google so gives you and edge.

Less competitive secondary keywords can go on sub pages as a domain under the root will often carry adequate weight to get it in the top ten.

[Eriklange7]

Thanks for the advice! I am changing things now!