Matching page for keyword doesn't show in search
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Hello!
I'm having an issue with my website Rooms Index, the website is in Hebrew so I'll provide examples in English for better understandings.
When I'm searching Rooms by Hour in Haifa, google doesn't show the intended category page which is this, instead it shows my homepage in the results, this happens only for certain areas, while other areas are working well such as Tel aviv.
For example if I searched day use in Las Vegas it'd show me the Las Vegas page dayuse.com/las-vegas, but searching for Brooklyn I'd only see dayuse.com.
the pages are indexed and I can find them if I search site:roomsindex.co.il
what could cause such problem?
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Both pages are similar, not much work has been done on either since it's a new project, currently only the homepage is being worked on an SEO level.
My homepage is doesn't receive links with location anchortext.
my homepage has keywords for both areas I mentioned above because they are highly competitive, Tel Aviv and Haifa both appear the same number of times in the home page text, but the Haifa page has way more keywords and is optimized perfectly but still for some reason doesn't show up as intended.
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Hi,
A couple of things you could check to identify the problem.
Did you look at the Page Authority of the pages not showing up in Google? Maybe they are less powerfull than the pages like Las Vegas.
Is your homepage receiving external/internal links with [location] anchortext links?
Maybe your homepage is "too" optimized for a couple of cities?
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