Google shows my domain name and host domain in results?

[Mark_l]

Hi all,

When I search for for keywords I placed on my site I come in #1 and #2. (Google UK)

The problem is that the first result shows the domain name that is pointing to my host space. And the second result shows the same page but the address is the actual host space address.

So I come in #1 and #2 but with different domains - even thought the result shows the same title and description.

I worried I will get banned from Google for duplicate content! i dont know how this has happened?

Is there a way of stopping my host showing up in the results? Even though its the same page being found?

Cheers

Mark

[edited by: tedster at 6:07 pm (utc) on Jan. 30, 2007]

[Mark_l]

Anyone have any ideas?

I dont see how the same page can Rank twice at #1 and #2 but with different domain names?

[piatkow]

Had the same problem with a hobby site hosted with my ISP. Putting a "base" tag into the head seems to have resolved most of the problems.

[pageoneresults]

So I come in #1 and #2 but with different domains - even thought the result shows the same title and description.

Hmmm, that surely isn't good. Couple of things to think about. Is there a misconfiguration in the settings with the host? Or, is there something fishy about? Hosts have been known to do sneaky things with their clients websites.

[Mark_l]

I hope its nothing sneaky on the part of the ISP.

Im happy with #1 obviously! BUT i think the #2 position may end up getting me banned. Ill look into this "BASE" tag mentioned above.

Ta

Mark

[Mark_l]

I tried the 'base' tag but it seemed to just mess up the site?

Ive noticed the results from my hostspace are creeping up google?

[adamnichols45]

Hmmm - Im going to follow this one!

[pageoneresults]

Run a DNS Report for your site. Tell me if you've failed any of the checks in that report and which ones they were.

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[pageoneresults]

Mark, quick question, has your site been taken offline in the last 90-120 days? Was your account taken offline for any reason and for how long? Just a suspicion...

[Marcia]

I had something similar, where I was getting hammered by the Yahoo crawler being sent into a loop, hitting a /page-suspended/ page every second or so - with another domain showing for the page (the host's server domain). Plus, all kinds of referrers for oddball stuff having nothing to do with me.

I actually wrote to Yahoo about the crawl issue (they did check - I saw the referrers - and did reply), but finally the host figured out that they had misconfigured the A-name record for the domain.

Ive noticed the results from my hostspace are creeping up google?

Put in an URGENT support ticket, and phone them if possible. If they don't find and fix the problem right away, I'd think about moving the site.

Meantime, I'm not sure how you would do it, but Google's crawl team really should look at the issue, for the same reason I felt Yahoo needed to know about the issue with Slurp - it showed a vulnerability to server misconfigurations.

[edited by: Marcia at 4:00 am (utc) on Feb. 3, 2007]

[Mark_l]

pageoneresults - No the site hasn't been down.

Im not a 'server' person so technically I dont know where to start!

Done a UK google for < keyword phrase removed >

Im #1 for http://www.my-site.co.uk and #2 for http://my-host.co.uk

Why no www before "my-host"
I ran that DNS check thing:

warning for - Single Point of Failure
warning for - SOA?
Fail on - Domain A Lookup, whatever that is?

Do I need to ask Google about this and if so how the hell do you talk to google?!

<Sorry, no specifics.
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[edited by: tedster at 7:12 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2007]

[tedster]

Hmmm, so both domains resolve to your content at the root. You own both these domains, correct? Looks like the problem in this case is that there are two domain names set to resolve to the same resource -- the same content -- with a 200 OK header.

There should be a 301 [permanent] redirect from one of domains to the preferred domain name. The details depend on the kind of server involved, and are well covered on our forums (Apache of Microsoft). Get your tech person to study up.

The "www" issue is also a server cofiguration issue that should be fixed - and also is well covered here. Our "Site Search" will uncover the information your server admin needs.