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Does Use of Custom Homepage in Wordpress cause SEO confusion?

This is our first Wordpress project and we are using Yoast SEO.   We opted for the Custom Homepage option of the theme instead of the Static Homepage.  Never used or wanted latest blog post to be the homepage.  

Yoast SEO tool works great on the rest of the pages, relatively a WYSIWYG deal.  But modifying the Home page in the SEO tool has no bearing on the Customized Home page appearance.  But it DOES affect the meta information displayed in Google's Search results.

So which page am I supposed to optimize; the Custom Page which is visible to the public, or this "phantom" page for which Google sees  Meta information?  Right now I'm doing both as best I can.  The page done through Yoast tool isn't pretty, but it seems to score well with Yoast.  The Customized page looks OK, but not sure if Google sees or cares about it's  SEO attributes.

Our homepage is https://CQCash.com
Thanks for your help,
Gale W.
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Thanks both of you.  Tom caused me to go back and do some deeper examination of our Headings and a few other items.  Think we've taken several steps in the proper direction to helping Google understand our structure and content.  Our Heading tags were somewhat randomly assigned, and our page Meta stood to be updated as well.   Thanks for the guidance and motivation.- Gale W
You're welcome. Glad to help.