Changed URL in Google Search Results. added /index.aspx

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Changed URL in Google Search Results. added /index.aspx

URL change as seen in Google Search results. Addition of /index.aspx.

Docjamesmd

3:41 am on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

I have notice a change in its url in the Google search results, in the last few weeks.

Before the loss of page rank from 3 to 0 and the drop in Google Search rankings the url seen on the Google search pages was
http://example.com

Since the loss of PR and drop in rankings the url seen on the Google search pages is
http://example.com/index.aspx

When I search for back links for http://example.com
Google shows .... Results of about 1,950 for http://example.com

When I search for back links for http://example.com/index.aspx
Google shows ..... Results of 9 for http://example.com/index.aspx.

[edited by: phranque at 7:09 am (utc) on June 4, 2009]
[edit reason] exemplified urls [/edit]

megri

6:36 am on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

May be you have linked your home page with index.apsx that why google indexed that page as home page

g1smd

9:18 am on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

Redirect the index to / in the server config.

Crawl your site with Xenu LinkSleuth and make sure none of your internal links link by filename.

Do also check that non-www redirects to www, site-wide.

JS_Harris

9:35 am on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

End the problem permanently by adding the unwanted page to your robots.txt file. Do as suggested above aftwerwards to find the offending link(s) and change them.

g1smd

10:13 am on Jun 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

The 301 is an almost instant fix, one that eventually transfers the PageRank to the right URL, whilst instantly still delivering users to the right content. It also instantly stops proliferation of links to the wrong version. It is optional whether you get sites that link to you to update the URL they link to. Some will see the redirect flagged in their site-crawl reports (assuming they do check their site occasionally), and will update it without you having to ask.

The robots.txt method continues to 'waste' PR, and does not stop proliferation of incorrect links (because people will still see the incorrect URL in their browser URL bar and be able to continue to cut and paste it to other sites as links). Unless you physically tell other sites to update their links, they will never know they are linking to the 'wrong' URL (that's one reason why the redirect method is 'better').

phranque

7:37 am on Jun 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

now if only we could figure out how to solve the directory url canonicalization with IIS6 [webmasterworld.com] problem...