Homepage not indexed & duplicate content issues

Marketing
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I’ve recently just started a new wordpress site, installed XML site maps & registered for Webmaster tools.

When I run a google search for “site: mysite” The home page doesn’t show up, just a few of the other static pages & some test posts that I published to test the site functionality. I have since nofollowed the test posts, removed them from the blog and resubmitted the sitemap via webmaster tools.

When I look at the site map that was submitted to google via Settings>XML Sitemaps in my wordpress dashboard I can see that the homepage (which is just the domain name, i.e. not domain/home) has been included in the submitted site map and that it’s been weighted to 100% priority. I’ve also use the platinum SEO pack to take care of page titles, descriptions etc.

When I run a google search for my domain on page 3 I get the blog page but not the actual domain/homepage.

Any idea what could be causing this?

Also when I can see that 1 of the test posts has been indexed twice by google, hence I’m getting a duplicate content error when I use pear analytics seo

I have nofollowed the post, resubmitted the sitemap and then removed it from blog via changing the post status from published to pending review. Will this solve the problem?

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Google isnt done indexing your website. Eventually they will.

Try having some backlinks from high traffic sites like digg etc.

Indexing process could take anywhere from days to months. Honestly i wont worry about it.

3

I would suggest to speed up the process of caching would be to gain some high quality and relevant links to your website.

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Don’t include a space between site: and the sitename, because if you do then Google considers them as two separate items and not all together.