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The content which is being shown (title tag, meta description) is for http://www.example.co.uk/example-example rather than the http://www.example.com.
When you click the link it doesn't send you to the url displayed, it takes you to http://www.example.com/example-example
If you then click back and click the url again. It takes you to the url displayed (not the one which it took you to the first time).
What kind of re-direct is this? Are there any problems associated with this?
http://www.example.com. is identical to another of their sites http://www.example.net/. Which is why some of this is needed. It's all run of the same content management system.
The pages which are being shown are diferent, so does this solve the problem?
[edited by: Receptional_Andy at 3:14 pm (utc) on Aug. 20, 2008]
[edit reason] Exemplified/unlinked URLs [/edit]
If Google ia showing the title and snippet taken from a different page, that sounds like a 302 temporary redirect is involved - but there might be more going on than that. I'd suggest using Firefox with the Live HTTP Headers add-on to track the redirects and see what is happening each step of the way.
Also, the fact that you click "Back" and then the same link works differently sounds like there could be cookies involved, too, so test for that.
http://www.example.com. is identical to another of their sites http://www.example.net/. Which is why some of this is needed.
It's not a good idea to serve the same content from two different URLs - so if that's happening you'll want to choose which URL Google should index and take steps not to have the other version indexed.
