Google's Cache is Showing Another Site

[jgold454]

Ok. This is a first.

A few days ago I noticed one of my sites had lost a keyword position it has held for 5+ years. When I started checking into it I noticed the homepage wasn't in the index but all sub-pages were.

I created a sitemap for the site and submitted it. Today I noticed the homepage now has a Dec 27th cache date but it is a completely different site that is in the cache.

This is very strange and I have never experienced this one before. I am just going to wait and see and not do anything but I just wanted to pass this along to see if anyone else has ever experienced this or if anyone has any idea of what may have happened.

Thanks and a great new year to all of you!

Jerry

[tedster]

We get reports of this kind of thing every so many weeks. Sometimes there is a DNS problem, technically poor configuration of shared hosting, or a redirect tangle. Sometimes it's an unknown bug that just goes away. Here are some related threads:

Website pages are cached with a different domain name [webmasterworld.com]

Google Shows Cache of Another Site [webmasterworld.com]

Wrong Site in Google Cache / Info [webmasterworld.com]

[Robert Charlton]

There is another recent thread that mentions a similar problem...

Another site is displayed in Google's cache instead of my website
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One possibility suggested in this thread is that, if you share an IP address with the other domain, there might be a hosting problem.

Or... does the url of the cached page by any chance look like this?....

www.slimyproxysite.com/nph-page.pl/000000A/http/www.mydomain.com

If so, you might also want to take a look at this thread....

Proxy Server URLs Can Hijack Your Google Ranking - how to defend?
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