Google Indexing Another Site

with Our URL displayed

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I recently noticed our one site www.domain.com was missing from the google index for its chief keyword.

Upon investigation I noted that our site "domain.com" was indexed (missing the "www").

But the really strange part is that is... Google has indexed another alien site with our url (www.domain.com) with another sites content (www.wrongsite.com) but it kept our Google directory listing below it.

Our site normally has daily Freshbot hits and it is a PR6. It was hit by the Freshbot daily as of Feb 1 2003.

When you go to the other site (www.wrongsite.com) it does not show content or descriptions that Google lists in the index. Google is displaying a site within the other website (i.e. www.wrongsite.com/webpage.php).

What can I do about this? Have you ever seen this before? Could this be a Google DNS problem?

Basically Google has our site listed twice:

1) www.domain.com ---> another website
2) domain.com ---> our site

Disclaimers: I don't use cloaking or redirects and I am not affiliated in any manner with the other site.

[web_india]

Are you on a shared IP with a virtual host?

[frontpage]

No, i have my own IP for (www.mydomain.com) which is different from the other domain.

[web_india]

I have seen this problem happens sometime with shared IP but with a unique IP as in your case, may be you can check your incoming links. If any one of your high PR links is linked to domain.com, that may explain the listings merging.

Regarding the second site, I can only guess that the problem is from Google side.

[TheComte]

This happened on one of my non-commercial sites a few months ago. In my case, the serp listed the title and description for the other site, but listed www.mydomain.com at the bottom. When the link was clicked it went to my site. The serp was based on my keywords which had nothing to do with the other site. My site was on a shared server / ip. After a couple of weeks, it self corrected and everything was ok once again. Go figure.

[frontpage]

When you click on the URL of the (www.otherdomain) it takes you to my site.

I can only hope this is some kind of hiccup by Google's DNS or internal workings because it is definitely causing us grief. The other site must be wondering where this new traffic/google listing is coming from.

[novice]

I have noticed that there are many sites that are listed in Google that are (domainname.com/ufad.php) that are not associated with (domainname.com). A search on Google under com/ufad.php will show almost 10,000 sites. All of these link to a page with a single banner ad on the top. Is this a way of using sub domains to capitalize on the actual domain.