Google showing cache of different website

[ashwin]

Dear all,

I've a cache issue with my website & I'm here to get help & resolve this problem.

I have 2 websites as following:
<snip> &
<snip>

When i check cache of my first website <snip>, its showing a different website url of my other website <snip>.

Canonical tags are fine, but don't know why it's happening?

I'm using same designs & coding right now but will change design soon of 2nd one. Also canonical tags are different in both website, still have cache problem.

Please guide me to resolve this.

Thanks
Ashwani

[edited by: aakk9999 at 4:31 pm (utc) on Jan 16, 2016]
[edit reason] Please no URLs as per Forum Charter [/edit]

[aakk9999]

Hello Ashwani and welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Unfortunately we are not allowed to post website URLs so I had to remove these, but I had a quick look and for members' benefit I can disclose that currently both sites have identical content.

I am guessing that Google somehow connected they are owned by the same entity, and as they are currently identical, the cache of one shows the content of the other.

Are they on the same server? Has there even been the time when both domains pointed to the same webspace? When were separate canonicals implemented?

You say you are about to change the second website design and coding. If you still have the same content then you may have the same problem regardless of design and coding.

If I was developing a new site which is based on a copy of an existing site, I would not let Google see it and index it until the site is ready because your issue shows exactly what problems can be encountered.

What I would do is block the other site, redevelop it, change design (and hopefully you have a different content too) and then once finished and perfect, unblock it and submit it to Google for indexing.

[dipper]

that being the case - 301 one to the other.

[Vimes]

DNS and CName Maybe?

i've had people point those at my sites in the past (by accident) and they have duplicated the data, on different ip ranges

Vimes

[martinibuster]

In addition to the above possibilities, try visiting your site with your browser user agent switched to emulate Googlebot. If it shows another site then it could be hacked.

[ashwin]

Thanks aakk9999, dipper, Vimes & matinibuster.

@martin, please tell me how to check website with browser user agent switched to emulate Googlebot.

[netmeg]

There are firefox plugins and chrome extensions that will do that - just search for user agent switch.