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If you check Google's  index: https://www.google.co.za/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=site%3Apreferredsafaris.com africa

You'll see that both title tags, meta description refers to our current site & when checking the cached page themselves, this shows the southernafricatravel.com equivalent page...

Hi,

I've recently joined the business and as part of the cleanup process I got told that we owned this domain preferredsafaris.com with some very similar content to our main site southernafricatravel.com.

We're no longer owns the preferredsafaris.com domain but looking at Google's cache for it we realised that the title, meta description & page shown when looking at the 'cached page' is for our current domain even though it is showing the 'correct' URL there.

I imagine this might have something to do with canonical set on those pages but the weird thing is all those pages now render 404 & do not show a canonical in the source code.

I have used Google Removal Tool https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals for all those URLs & Google says that it has removed them & yet they're still showing.

What do you suggest? Any potential issue in regards to duplicate content here?

Cheers,

Julien

Thanks Chris,

I can't believe I didn't pick this up myself....taken away at looking at a more complex issue/solution.

Much appreciated.

Hi all,

very weird things happening to us. For the 3 URLs below, Google cache is rendering content from a different URL (sister site) even though there are no redirects between the 2 & live page shows the 'right content' - see:

• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://giltedgeafrica.com/tours/
• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://giltedgeafrica.com/about/
• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://giltedgeafrica.com/about/team/

We also have the exact same issue with another domain we owned (but not anymore), only difference is that we 301 redirected those URLs before it changed ownership:

• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.preferredsafaris.com/Kenya/2
• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.preferredsafaris.com/accommodation/Namibia/5

I have gone ahead into the URL removal Tool and got denied for the first case above ("") and it is still pending for the second lists. We are worried that this might be a sign of duplicate content & could be penalising us.

Thanks!

ps: I went through most questions & the closest one I found was this one (http://moz.com/community/q/page-disappeared-from-google-index-google-cache-shows-page-is-being-redirected) but it didn't provide a clear answer on my question above