Dfferent url of some other site is shown by Google in cace copy of our site's page
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Hi,
When i check cached copy of url of my site http://goo.gl/BZw2Zz , the url in cache copy shown by Google is of some other third party site. Why is Google showing third party url in our site's cached url. Did any of you guys faced any such issue.
Regards,
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I've seen instances where Google has created a canonical relationship between two duplicate URLs, even if one isn't explicitly defined. In these cases, they're basically deciding that the documents are duplicates and choose one for search. The document is linked to another site entirely, which may not be helping, either.
If this is a document that lives on multiple sites or is provided by a third party, ranking for it or getting Google to see it as unique may be very difficult. There could be technical issues here, but I'm not seeing any offhand - it's possible Google just doesn't want to index multiple copies of what it sees as exactly the same document. If it's important to rank for it, you might need to create your own, slightly customized copy, or an HTML version.
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Thanks for a quick response Peter,
The link http://goo.gl/BZw2Zz that i shared is correct and is a pdf url. When i check cache of that pdf url, i see that url of a third party site is shown in cache copy at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Awww.99acres.com%2Fcustomised%2Ffloatilla-manikonda-hyderabad-residential-property%2Fgifs%2Ffloatilla_price_Sheet.pdf&oq=cache%3Awww.99acres.com%2Fcustomised%2Ffloatilla-manikonda-hyderabad-residential-property%2Fgifs%2Ffloatilla_price_Sheet.pdf&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.3093j0j4&bav=on.2,or.&biw=1366&bih=655&dpr=1&ech=1&psi=sR-SVfSVO4y8uATt6IK4AQ.1435639731097.3&ei=sR-SVfSVO4y8uATt6IK4AQ&emsg=NCSR&noj=1
There are neither any redirects in place nor we have any relation with the third party site, of whose the url is being shown in our cached copy. Any solution could you propose.
Regards
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Sorry, that link goes to a PDF price list. I think you sent the wrong document.
Generally speaking, I've seen it when either there's a weird redirect in play or, in extreme cases, when Google is treating one site as a duplicate of another and canonicalizing them. I've seen this even when no rel=canonical tag is in place. It's uncommon, but it's happened.
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