Now we have lined examples of Google choosing the incorrect canonical URL from inside your area, however what about when Google exhibits you a website title that isn’t yours? What if the Google URL inspection device exhibits a website title that you don’t personal because the Google-selected canonical?
I imply, this is not new, we have heard of this earlier than however it’s typically uncommon to see.
Traian Neacsu hasd this difficulty and posted about it on X – Traian wrote, “I’ve by no means seen Google choosing a unique area title as canonical, @JohnMu. May this be some type of spam?” John will not reply, he has not replied to a put up on X in months now.
Here’s a screenshot of this:
However as Darth Autocrat (Lyndon NA) replied, it is a type of spam the place you principally copy the content material from a web page and put it on a unique area title and outrank them for it. Google then consolidates it to the area it thinks is the legit one and clearly right here, Google is getting it incorrect.
Darth wrote, “Sure, it may be a type of Spam (unfavorable search engine marketing). We name it a “Canonical Confusion” assault.”
After all, this may be performed accidentally by the positioning proprietor however I believe on this case it’s not. The canonical URL Google chosen goes by way of some 301 redirect to a brilliant spammy website.
So what do you do to repair it? Attempt to construct up your website’s popularity. This goes again to Google’s recommendation on copy cat websites outranking your authentic content material. It generally comes all the way down to your website having high quality points or some type of penalty.
Discussion board dialogue at X.
