Timeline for Why is Google indexing all these other websites?
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| Jan 15, 2013 at 1:27 | vote | accept | SameOldNick | ||
| Jan 14, 2013 at 21:35 | comment | added | David K. | ok, i added it as an answer ... | |
| Jan 14, 2013 at 21:34 | answer | added | David K. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 14, 2013 at 9:26 | comment | added | David K. | hmm, let it rest for a couple of days and see what happens. as @w3d pointed out, a 404 header should prevent google to index the page. | |
| Jan 13, 2013 at 7:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackWebmasters/status/290353023572647937 | ||
| Jan 12, 2013 at 21:41 | comment | added | SameOldNick | @w3d yes, clicking on the URL in Google brings me to a 404 page. Also, the website does return a status code of "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found" when it is loaded. | |
| Jan 12, 2013 at 20:34 | comment | added | MrWhite | Is the 404 error page actually returning a 404 status? If it is then Google should not have the page in its index (unless it was perhaps valid at some point) - presumably clicking on this URL in the SERPs takes you to a 404 page? | |
| Jan 12, 2013 at 19:54 | comment | added | SameOldNick | @DKOATED Its running cPanel so I can't modify the Virtual Hosts for Apache. Could this be because the site was just recently added to the server and when the client pointed the nameservers to my server, Google was able to index it right away and the clients website showed as my website? | |
| Jan 12, 2013 at 19:54 | comment | added | SameOldNick | @w3d client.com/page.html technically does exist. Its a wordpress site that shows a 404 error page when you access client.com/page.html | |
| Jan 12, 2013 at 11:57 | comment | added | David K. | just to clarify: you have two different domains (xyz.com and client.com) with the same content (page.html) served on both domains? if the content is both accessible through both domains, you may run into duplicate content issues, resulting in strange displaying behaviour with google. on the other hand, you may have to look at your server config to prohibit accessing material from one domain with another domain (which usually should not be the case). sounds to me, you may have a virtual host setting error (if you run apache). | |
| Jan 12, 2013 at 10:29 | comment | added | MrWhite |
client.com/page.html - you say this webpage doesn't exist? But it is indexed in Google? Does it serve content?
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| Jan 12, 2013 at 7:01 | history | asked | SameOldNick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |