Category page ranking, homepage not?

[BallsLikePlanets]

I'm working on my first site and I had a look through the first few pages on google just incase it showed up already.

A page on my site under 'categories' on wordpress with just a link to the home page and a little bit of text is ranking on page 4 (no title, no desc). But my actual homepage with content on & SEO based around the keyword is nowhere in sight. Anyone got a clue why?

 

[Ambitious12]

Did you do good onpage optimization for home page?

 

[BallsLikePlanets]

Did you do good onpage optimization for home page?

Aye, Yoast SEO plugin says it's all good. Did much more than the category page too, which is strange. Maybe just because it's a new site it takes a while for google to sort it all out properly? It's on page 1 on Bing though.

 

[sunny_clicks]

I'm working on my first site and I had a look through the first few pages on google just incase it showed up already.

A page on my site under 'categories' on wordpress with just a link to the home page and a little bit of text is ranking on page 4 (no title, no desc). But my actual homepage with content on & SEO based around the keyword is nowhere in sight. Anyone got a clue why?

If it's a new site then you should gibe it a bit of time before all the pages get indexed by the search engines. The page which shows for any particular query depends on the on-page aspects.