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Incorrect URL shown in Google search results
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Can anyone offer any advice on how Google might get the url which it displays in search results wrong?
It currently appears for all pages as:
<cite>www.domainname.com › Register › Login</cite>
When the real url is nothing like this. It should be:
www.domainname.com/product-type/product-name.
This could obviously affect clickthroughs.
Google has indexed around 3,000 urls on the site and they are all like this.
There are links at the top of the page on the website itself which look like this: Register » Login » which presumably could be affecting it?
Thanks in advance for any advice or help!
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Good plan, thanks for this and all your help.
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Looks like it worked.. all the newly cached pages don't have those breadcrumbs. To speed up the process, I'd resubmit your sitemaps.
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Thanks Oleg, great advice. That makes complete sense. We have done this and I will let you know if it works.
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Cool cool. No breadcrumb code but it still shows up. My guess is that it assumes the » implies a breadcrumb. Try changing that to something else... | or > ... and see if it goes away.
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Thanks for this. The url is http://www.thevictorianemporium.com/
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Sounds like its picking up breadcrumbs and displaying those instead. Care to share the URL?
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