Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Yes, no doubt about it - I have a site that has had identical content on non-www and www and never been changed since launch and has got the problem.
And of course Matts site has a related problem and has identical content on the non-www and www homepages.
I think the way Google is run they like to get things "Technically correct" - which means that they may not employ some shortcuts - even if they knew it would alleviate some of the problems.
So the whole sites get indexed twice
Again where sites have different content on www and non-www. Even if Google were to go awry on indexing sites with different content on www and non-www, I think that will be much lesser a news than it is now, with all webmasters scurrying off to do that 301 from non-www to www.
IMO there's no way that a crawl would be immediatly followed by an algo working on the data - this happens at a later date/time. I also wonder whether the algo is applied to ranges of IP addressses at a time.
So much too learn - isn't life wonderful ( cue postings on meaning of life and 42 )
>>Someone please tell me not to worry and that you're seeing the same. Reseller, any chance a steaming hot cup of cappuccino to calm my nerves? :)) <<
Really don't worry. Things are changing all the time (FLUX) as many of our friends here have reported. Google is just running a "Mental-Test" among webmasters and only those who start their day by a cup of Danish Brand Cappuccino shal survive ;-)
petehall:
We see the same - home page outranking relevant internal page - and have been seeing this since before I went on a trip last week.
IMO there's no way that a crawl would be immediatly followed by an algo working on the data - this happens at a later date/time. I also wonder whether the algo is applied to ranges of IP addressses at a time.So much too learn - isn't life wonderful ( cue postings on meaning of life and 42 )
I thought I saw a tiny bit of movement earlier on so maybe this won't last too long.
It doesn't really bother me... but I do think more relevant internal pages are better for users (and conversions!).