Index page accidental swap

[mattparish]

I have a problem with a new website that I have created. Whilst optimizing the new site it was accidently uploaded to my companies existing website and overwrote its index page. We quickly reloaded our company home page as soon as we discovered the error. Now when I search for the new website in Google it comes up number one however the link now points to my companies website!? I'm sure our client will see the funny side... any idea how to remove the incorrect link from the Google directory?
many thanks
Matt

[Quadrille]

I'm sure our client will see the funny side

You reckon? ;)

Mind you, so long as 'their' searches don't come up with 'your' site, you may be right.

Get a Google site map for your site, to get deep spidering, or wait for Google's next visit. Either way, keep you fingers crossed.

Provided the error was brief (one spidering) I'd be fairly confident it will self-correct at the next one.

[mattparish]

Thanks for the reply. I have created a google site map for the client website and validated it etc.

What still puzzles me is how the 'combined' website has reached number one when my own company website is not optimized at all (ones own site is always the last to be optimized!) and I was struggling to get high rankings with the clients site... maybe if I could understand this freak occurance I could utilise it somehow.

Anyway thanks again
Matt

[Helen]

It depends on the overall strength of your website. The age of your website, incoming links, number of indexed pages, etc. etc. etc.

If the site had all these in place but no optimized content, then now that the site has optimized content it could start ranking for some terms.

It will probably correct itself the next time the spider drops by.