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Hi All,

Just giving this a bump, because on a weird day, this still seems weird to me. Just to put it in a nutshell:

When you do a bing search like this: "site:www.oursite.co.uk "particular keyword", you get results like:

1. Page about particular keyword from www.oursite.co.uk
2. Different page with this keyword from www.oursite.co.uk
3. Page featuring that keyword from www.acompletelydifferentsite.com
4. Another page with this keyword from www.oursite.co.uk
5. Another page but from www.anothertotallydifferentsite.net

etc.

Has anybody, anywhere ever come across this?

Many thanks,

Dan

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone can explain what's going on here, because after hours of searching I cannot find anyone having the same problem...

We use Bing search to provide the site search functionality on our website and recently for a particular keyword search, the results include several pages which are not on our site: they are on completely different domains! You can replicate it by going to bing.com and using the "site:" operator together with that keyword. Again, results from other domains appear in amongst the pages on our site.

I cannot find any other keywords which produce this same behaviour: every other keyword I have tried shows only results from our site. However, I obviously haven't tested absolutely every possible keyword combination. Bing isn't "padding" out the results or anything like that, because we have more than enough pages referencing this term on the site, and I'm at a total loss as to why this is happening.

So, I suppose my question is: has anyone ever had this happen to them? And if so, what did they do about it?

Many thanks,

Dan

Thanks both for responding - EGOL's response was a really straight answer, although I appreciate the detail from Ruth.

This is really a follow-up question, but what if you have several pages targeting slightly different, but related keywords? So to use the example above, what if MissThumann had separate pages targeting:

• auto insurance
• automobile insurance
• california auto insurance
• auto insurance policies
• etc

Would these pages still compete with each other since the keywords are permutations of each other?

Hi all,

A couple of years ago we amalgamated five separate domains into one, and set up 301 redirects from all the pages on the old domains to their equivalent pages on the new site. We were a bit tardy in using the "change of address" tool in Search Console, but that was done nearly 8 months ago now as well.

Two years after implementing all the redirects, the old domains still have significant authority (DAs of between 20-35) and some strong inbound links. I expected to see the DA of the legacy domains taper off during this period and (hopefully!) the DA of the new domain increase. The latter has happened, although not as much as I'd hoped, but the DA of the legacy domains is more or less as good as it ever was?

Google is still indexing a handful of links from the legacy sites, strangely even when it is picking up the redirects correctly. So, for example, if you do a site:legacydomain1.com query, it will give a list of results which includes pages where it shows the title and snippet of the page on newdomain.com, but the link is to the page on legacydomain1.com.

What has prompted me to finally try and resolve this is that the server which hosted the original 5 domains is now due to be decommissioned which obviously means the 301 redirects for the original pages will no longer be served. I can set up web forwarding for each of the legacy domains at the hosting level, but to maintain the page-by-page redirects I'd have to actually host the websites somewhere. I'd like to know the best way forward both in terms of the redirect issue, and also in terms of the indexing of the legacy domains?

Many thanks,

Dan