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    • Wagada
      Wagada last edited by

      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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        Wagada @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

        Good plan, thanks for this and all your help.

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        • OlegKorneitchouk
          OlegKorneitchouk @Wagada last edited by

          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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          • Wagada
            Wagada last edited by

            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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            • OlegKorneitchouk
              OlegKorneitchouk @Wagada last edited by

              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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              • Wagada
                Wagada @OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

                Thanks for this. The url is http://www.thevictorianemporium.com/

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                • OlegKorneitchouk
                  OlegKorneitchouk last edited by

                  Sounds like its picking up breadcrumbs and displaying those instead. Care to share the URL?

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