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  • Michael Nielsen 154 posts 811 karma points
    Jul 28, 2014 @ 10:16
    Michael Nielsen
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    Google indexing URLs from other hostnames

    Having an odd issue. 

    On a multi-site with this setup

    Content
    - Danish (hostname: www.domain.dk)
    - DanishPages
    - Swedish (hostname: www.domain.se)
    - SwedishPages
    - English (hostname: en.domain.dk)
    - EnglishPages
    - Other site (hostname: otherdomain.com)
    - OtherPages

    Google has indexed pages with an URL not belonging to that hostname, i.e.

    www.domain.dk/SwedishPages
    www.domain.se/DanishPages
    en.domain.dk/DanishPages
    otherdomain.com/DanishPages

    When clicking on the search result, you will get a 404 error. 

    Anyone experienced anything similar or have any idea on how it is possible for Google to index an URL like that?

    Umbraco 4.11.10

  • Dan Lister 416 posts 1974 karma points c-trib
    Jul 28, 2014 @ 10:39
    Dan Lister
    0

    Hmmm very strange. Do you have a site map file for each of the sites or a dynamically generated site map file based on the current requested site? If so, can you confirm what pages are present within each? Do they contain the pages only needed for the correct site?

    Thanks, Dan.

  • Michael Nielsen 154 posts 811 karma points
    Aug 19, 2014 @ 09:42
    Michael Nielsen
    0

    Installed this package

    http://our.umbraco.org/projects/website-utilities/sitemapxml ;

    And there are pages from other hostnames, it looks really strange.

    This is the sitemap for otherdomain.com (reffering to the above example)

    <url>
    <lastmod>2014-08-12</lastmod>
    </url>
    <url>
    <lastmod>2014-06-19</lastmod>
    </url>

    So it is like it is appending the full url from other hostnames. Anyone have any idea on what is going on?

  • Michael Nielsen 154 posts 811 karma points
    Aug 20, 2014 @ 08:35
    Michael Nielsen
    0

    I'm not sure if it's a symptom of the problem, or if it is just the package that doesn't work correctly. 

    The sitemap for the first site tree looks fine, but sitemaps for all other sites shows as above where the correct domain has all URLS from the first site appended. The pages from the current site is not present in them.

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