Weird indexing problem - Can it be solved?

[Resultify]

Hi

Been building and optimising sites for 15 years and this is one of the hardest problems I ever came across. So any help would be very much appreciated. Here we go:

For some mysterious reason this URL http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ has been indexed as http://weekend.visitsweden.com even if we tried all we can to correct it. The problem is that since the latter points to the first URL with a 301 it refuses to get any page rank. Also it does not get visible in Google at all.

Just a recap of what we have tried so far:

• Add site to webmaster tools
• Add proper sitemap.xml
• Add 301 redirect to the correct URL

An easy way to locate the problem is to search for the main content of the site. As you can see it returns the wrong URL and the correct URL does not even get listed.

Again, any help is very much appreciated.

Kind regards

Fredrik

[KristinaKledzik]

Hi there,

This is definitely a crazy problem! It looks like you've done what you should, but Google's ignoring you.

Here's a theory, though: I don't think that Google loves the idea of there being no "home" page; it probably only expects domain.com/home or domain.com/default.asp or domain.com/index.html as alternatives to domain.com, so seeing http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ redirect to http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ could be confusing it.

Is there a reason why you don't want http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ to be the homepage?

Kristina

[DonnaDuncan]

That's very strange. Do you have anything conflicting in your htaccess file and redirect plugin (if you're using one)? Does weekend.visitsweden.com (without the /no/) reside on the same servers and is it using conflicting canonical or redirect tags?

weekend.visitsweden.com/ IS getting indexed. I did a search for "Slottet er et av Skånes eldsteog mest bemerkelsesverdige slottmed anertilbake til 1200-tallet" and weekend.visitsweden.com/ was the #2 result. My tools tell me the page has 0 links though. Thought that was odd too.

Have you tried asking Google to specifically deindex weekend.visitsweden.com?

That's all I can think of.

[Chris.Menke]

And does it do the same thing if you remove the 301 from .com/ to .com/no/ and leave it without a redirect for a while?

[Resultify]

Forget to mention, this has been discussed before in this thread:
http://moz.com/community/q/visitsweden-indexing-error

Unfortunately those suggestions did not seem to solve the issue.