the wordpress theme im using has this built in function to fill out the homepage content on the site. Basically it provides 'content areas' which you can assign i page to. So I create a page, put the content on there, then in my theme's homepage settings under "content area", i choose that page. My question is how this might affect SEO and how google views this homepage as far as the content. Since the main content is being pulled from what is technically another page. Is this ok? Or do I need to hand code this content into the home.php file to ensure that google sees this content on the homepage?
Hi jbourne - this might mean that the homepage won't be optimized for receiving traffic for a specific keyword. If you want to retain this theme but have a very customized page where you can control the content, I'd either make some customizations or just create a PAGE, and then go into Settings and make the homepage a "Static" page and then point it to the page you created to be your new homepage.
You can assign any page to your home page, there is option in Wordpress dashword.. I think it is "reading"!
I don't found any issues with your site currently with fetching content from other places. You can try Google fetch and you'll able to see Google bot view. Many new WordPress themes have features which you told and there is nothing wrong about it. So don't worry about it and make a good site which adds value to the web.
thanks for the responses all, i was mainly concerned with it because I have noticed that the sites sub-pages come up in searches more often than the main page