Explain this search result
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Hi folks,
I came across a strange search result.
Search on Google Australia for "income portfolio".
http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=income+portfolio
See the first result? It's a login page.
How is that search result showing? And in position #1! Where is it getting its title and descriptions tags from? Does Google have a way to somehow see what is behind the login?
Appreciate your thought.
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You can provide logins for the GoogleMediaPartnersBot. But not for GoogleBot.
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Thanks guys for your input.
Only thing, how would googlebot can get through the login page? Is there some way to provide Google a user and password?
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Well, I believe they have used Fetch as GoogleBot (which is submitting to index).
Also they have it in their sitemap too in: http://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/siteMap-pages.cfm (which is, I believe, submitted to index too).
I hope I am not wrong about this.
Istvan
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Ah. I see. Thanx Istvan
Do you think that GoogleBot is not redirected as users are? How did Google index that.
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www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/Portfolios/Income/ is not http://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/login/?requestedPage=%2Fportfolios%2Fincome%2F
The first one has content, the second doesn't. While you are not logged in you are redirected to the second one. (Depends on cookies I think). If they have "smart" enough they have submitted their www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/Portfolios/Income/ to Google index, so Google can see it
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How will GoogleBot log in?
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Marcel, the webpage is the same, you only need to log in.
As you can see the Cache for the specific page does show the "content-page". (And the cache was taken on 17th February 2012).
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They changed the content of that page and Google have not updated their snippet's description yet.
See the WayBackMachine for how the page used to look:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110721055407/http://www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/portfolios/income/ -
Hi there,
Well they just made one stupid mistake
The page which they are ranking for is cached by Google. This is what Google is seeing: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WP7UDTrc9loJ:www.intelligentinvestor.com.au/Portfolios/Income/+income+portfolio&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au
Although that is a restricted Member area, they forgot to put noindex on it
so this is where they've got.
It will raise Bounce Rate for sure (As I enter pages like this I tend to close them soon too
and believe me, I am not the only one).
I hope that made a little-bit cleared,
Istvan
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