SERP data went away??
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As of a day ago, the SERPs in Google are showing our listing with NO meta description at all and the incorrect title. Plus the Title is varying based on the keywords searched.
Info: Something I just had done was have the multiple versions of their home page (duplicate content, about 40 URLs or so) 301 redirected the the appropriate place. I think they accidentally did 302s.
Anyone seen this before?
Thanks
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I've put up a new site recently that I had been link building to during development. It got indexed in a strange way - just the main keyword, hyphen, domain name... I had it set to noindex but Google obviously followed a few links to it to see where they went.
I'm hoping this will clear up for me once the site is cached. I assume you're experiencing another quirky Google ranking script, so it should be all cleared up on the next index of your site, regardless of the 302's actually supposed to be 301s
Aaron
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302s weren't what I was attempting, but yea, they all point to the same URL
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I only see this happen when I block a URL in my robots.txt file. That URL still gets put in the index, but it has no cache. Google doesn't store a copy of it. Usually the URL appears as the title though. IF you redirected all of those home page url's to just one, is that one the same one Google had in its index? Surely Google only had one version of your many url's in its index, so if you didn't 301 to that version, it may take a few weeks for things to get straightened out on their end.
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When this happens does it all point to the same URL? It might be an idea to use rel=canonical on this rather than a 302 (temporary redirect).
That way Google will acknowledge the links to all, but only index one copy of it.
In answer to your question regarding the different title tags - this does seem very strange. Because it happened so recently, I'd assume that there may be a small disparity in Google's distributed indexes (however I'm not sure!)
Aaron
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