Unwanted cloaking in google

Looks like we're cloaking, but we're not

[trillianjedi]

This is really weird.

Have a few new pages on the site (recently re-written URL's to allow them to be spidered).

Googlebot has been along and indexed them all, but the cached page in google is something else.

If I click on the link, it takes me through to the correct page. I look at the google cache for that page (URL is correct - I checked it about 10 times) and it's a completely different page on the site.

Any ideas anyone?

To google, it looks like we're cloaking, but we can't see where the problem is.....

TJ

[trillianjedi]

*bump*

Any thoughts?

TJ

[Josefu]

...did you change your site layout lately? Just a thought... that's an odd problem. I hope that they're pages on your site at least : )

[richardb]

No solutions for you, only a thought

At the height of the madness 2 er 3 months ago? We stopped following the G trail on WW and concentrated on SERP’s alone… …the gut reaction says that G is either experimenting openly, but for so long?! No, I don’t think so. More like they want to keep people guessing which way they are going, which algo they are going to use…

As for your cache on G that’s G’s problem and not yours.

Rich

[trillianjedi]

As for your cache on G that’s G’s problem and not yours.

Well, actually it's our problem - I'm sure that google don't care about this.

It's our problem because google thinks that it has indexed these pages, whereas in fact, it's indexed a completely different page under that URL.......

TJ

[edit_g]

What different page has it cached? Is it another page on your site, a page from another site, a blank page, a bright red page etc?

[edit] does it correspond somehow, is what I mean...[/edit]

[kaled]

I don't think you are the first person to whom this has happened. I'm almost certain that someone else commented on the same problem a couple of months ago.

Clearly, there is a bug in Google. I would suggest changing the date/time stamp (or whatever) on the affected pages to ensure that they are cached correctly next time.

Kaled.

[trillianjedi]

What different page has it cached? Is it another page on your site, a page from another site, a blank page, a bright red page etc?

[edit] does it correspond somehow, is what I mean...[/edit]

Sorry I forgot to answer that point - structure is like this:-

Parent page : Widget_Reviews_All.html

Sub-pages : Review_1.html
Review_2.html
Review_3.html

etc

Review_1.html to Review_3.html have been crawled and indexed, but the cached page for all three of them is "Widget_Reviews_All.html" (although the URL states "Review_X.html").

So, the parent page that they are linked from, although they are also linked to from other pages....

TJ