Google question

[Fletch XXX]

Why would Google point a URL to another URL?

Lets say you own the domains:

blackwhite.com
whiteblack.com

is there any reason Google would automatically point these to each other?

I have a domain, and its reciprocal.

And for some reason Google only shows one in the results, and it points to the other?

I have no clue how to explain it, or why its happening.

Even doing a specific search in the Google index for the domain, I can do a search for 'blackwhite.com' and the results brings up 'whiteblack.com'

I don't recall redirecting them ever, or having refresh pages, or anything that would have lead to this.

Any ideas?

[fiveyes]

No idea why it would do that!

But along the same lines, check out what happens when you do a search on Alexa for x365x.com, http://www.alexa.com/data/details?url=x365x.com. Can anyone explain that?!?

[UncleJimmy]

Yeh I can splain dat...

da chinese brethren be slinging some hiznits on that domain

[Dildozer]

hmmm Fletch the only way i could see this happening is if let's say blackwhite.com has a link named whiteblack.com pointing to whiteblack.com and it's the only one of the 2 domains indexed. Google sometimes doesn't index everything at the same time so of 2 new domains, only one might be indexed this month and probabilities are the other one will be next month.

[Fletch XXX]

Originally posted by Dildozer
hmmm Fletch the only way i could see this happening is if let's say blackwhite.com has a link named whiteblack.com pointing to whiteblack.com and it's the only one of the 2 domains indexed. Google sometimes doesn't index everything at the same time so of 2 new domains, only one might be indexed this month and probabilities are the other one will be next month.

Right, but thing is, both domains are older ones, Ive owned them for awhile but didnt use either one.

I am certain they linked each other - but hiow does it explain the google listing pointing results to the *other*

What sucks is all the google traffic I am missing because all subpages on the *not listed* domain are also not listed. So no pages from that domain get indexed.

I know google takes awhile, but I have been waiting for like 4 months in thinking it ws just an indexing issue etc...

who knows.

Its surely got me.

[horns]

It must be a racial thing

[Fletch XXX]

Originally posted by horns
It must be a racial thing

Ain't it always.

[Dildozer]

Maybe you got one of those domains banned.
It happened to me before did some work and half of those domains i used got banned right away, and when i looked for keywords for them i ended up having my other domains with the links on them.

It's possible that one of those 2 domains might have been banned, either cuz you deserved it or it's just another "civilian casualty" from google.

[Fletch XXX]

I thought of the banned thing, despite me not knowing what the hell I could have done to get banned.

But why would they point a banned domain to another domain?

I have no clue.

[Chris R]

It is not banning - it is because google THINKS one domain IS the other.

for example - type in googlebot.com - and notice google thinks it is google.com

This usually happens when one site is pointed to another and they have similar content.

I don't know how long google will keep it like that, but if I were you - I would put the sub content on the other domain so it can get indexed as well.

[EscortBiz]

the new algo does this, been like this for about 4 months