Wrong URL in Page Results... Very Strange

Wrong URL in Page Results

[Dabu The Dragon]

Boy, this may be a little tough to describe. The URL does not belong to the title and description.

Example(Page Result)
WebSite Title for widgets.com
WebSite Description for widgets.com Blah blah blah...
www.wrongURL.com/im_a_linked_site/index.htm

The wrongURLcom is linked to widgets.com. But for whatever reason wrongURL.com is in the place where widgets.com should be.
Both sites belong to me.

Help please.

[Dabu The Dragon]

Did i mention both site are on the same server?

[allanp73]

I have a similar thing happen. Because Google continues to rank directory sites better than the sites they link to, I experienced the following problem. A directory links to my site. The Google serp looks like my site (except the URL), but is in fact is the directory. Clicking the link gets to the directory then one must click another click to reach my site. The directory has less pr and is obviously less content rich but dominated over my site. Google's commercial filter strikes again.

[bether2]

I had a similar problem a while ago. The difference is that, in my case, the URL was for a page on the same site, but it wasn't the correct URL for the title/description.

Here's what I think may have caused the problem:
1. I put a link on my home page to a new lower-level page.
2. Googlebot spidered that page.
3. I replaced that link (in same position on page) with another link to a different new lower-level page.
4. Googlebot spidered that page.
5. When the second page showed up in the google index, it had the title/description of the first page. (Or it could have been vice versa - the first page had the title/description of the second page. I can't remember.)

It took a couple of months, but eventually it got sorted out.

Beth

[Net_Wizard]

or you might have a dns problem with your server.

This kind of problem have pop-up from time to time normally involving sites on the same server or the same hosting company.

If so, this is not a Google problem. Check your dns just to make sure otherwise you'll be stuck with that problem if it has nothing to do with Google.

[More Traffic Please]

or you might have a dns problem with your server.

If it is a DNS issue, wouldn't other engines show the wrong URL too?

[Net_Wizard]

Yes it would but bear in mind that Google is quick to refresh their database.

So, if the other engine have indexed the URL a while ago 'and' at that time their is no DNS issue then that engine will resolve the URL to the proper domain.

This kind of DNS problem is not really critical to the hosting provider but through oversight and plain laziness could cause a lot of headache to the affected domain.

This is really a simple DNS configuration 'mistake'. So, it won't harm you asking your hosting provider to check their DNS config.

One way to check if this is a DNS issue, type in the wrong URL in your browser window if it goes to your page then you know you have a problem in your side.

If the wrong URL goes to its own domain then in time Google will reflect that in their index.

Cheers

[Dabu The Dragon]

Hey everyone, thanks for the insight. Net_Wizard, it's very possible my URL problem is due to poor DNS configuration. But maybe not in the exact way you explained.

Brether2 I'm led to believe that my problem is similiar to what you experienced with your domains.
Hopefully this will straighten itself out in the near future.

allanp73 I've seen this happen before, where se's seem to prefer the url.com opposed to a url.com/directory, when it's obvious the url.com/directory is optimized the the keyword of interest.
If this where my problem then it would be the reverse for me.

Muchas Gracias