Former 301 redirect causing problems

[fclund]

Okay, I didn't really know how to describe my problem in the headline, but here goes:

My company has a number of country specific domains for the registered company name Bianco. All these domains, for instance bianco.dk, have some years ago been 301'ed to the main site bianco.com.

4 months ago we launched a Danish webshop on the bianco.dk domain, and thereby changed bianco.dk (and www.bianco.dk) from being a 301 redirect to a A-record pointing to the webshop.

The rankings for all subpages have started to work real well however there is one big issue: Google still thinks that the homepage bianco.dk points to bianco.com. When looking through the SERPS and finding a cached version of bianco.dk, it displays the homepage of bianco.com. Also the SERP displays the meta desription from bianco.com. However if you use the magnifying glass next to the search engine result, it actually display the frontpage of bianco.dk. Confused? So am I! I have never seen anything like it. Any advice?

[tedster]

On first impression, this does sound like a confusion on Google's back end to me, assuming all your DNS is set up properly (check it with one of the online tools).

Assuming the DNS is good, then try the "Fetch as googlebot" tool in the Labs area of Webmaster Tools and see if that gives you any clues.

[g1smd]

The data they show as the cached page is not the same data used and indexed for search results, and not the same data that is used to build the title or snippet in the SERPs. They are all updated on different cycles - as you can now see.

I'm not sure how to fix it, maybe it's a case of waiting for a few weeks or more to see what happens. However, perhaps you have waited long enough by now!

If the redirects really are single step 301 redirects to the correct location, then it's a Google Glitch. If the redirects are a multi-step redirection chain or not a 301 then there's problems on-site to fix.

[fclund]

I tried to fetch the site (bianco.dk) as googlebot and it shows the source from the "correct" page - bianco.dk.

Just to clear things up: bianco.dk used to be a 301 redirect to bianco.com, but was then changed to an A-record pointing to the webshop server.

I though about inserting a no-cache meta tag on bianco.dk hoping Google then would know to take a fresh look at the homepage?