Another company's website indexing for my site
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Hi,
I am looking at all the pages which Google are indexing for my website and have come across pages of another company's website.
I have contacted them through their online form and Facebook page asking for them to remove their listings for us, but to no avail so far.
Is there a way I can do this myself?
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Hi there,
I would say, discuss with your developer. It happened with one of our developers, who has been using our company's subdomain for a personal project development/staging (without our knowledge) and forget to noindex the dev site.
I have found it out exactly with a site: search.
As I can see the links are not live anymore, but are indexed with the old.britishcarregistrations.co.uk subdomain.
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Hi British-Car-Registrations, has this problem been resolved? I'm not seeing anything amiss in the search results now. Regardless, we'd love to hear from you!
Christy
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Hi,
Wait, there site is showing up in your results or their pages are ranking for your queries/pages? I feel like this needs a bit more explanation so we're able to help you out with this.
Martijn.
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