When I enter my domain name (which should be rather unique) I get a top ranking in Altavista and Yahoo, and on Google I end up on page 6, but not like I was expecting. Under the Description it says: clickbanknickname.cbfeed.com/. So I was expecting: Titel Description Description Description www.mysite.com/ Instead of: Titel Description Description Description clickbanknickname.cbfeed.com/ If I then search for "SITE:www.mysite.com" then I get: Titel Description Description Description www.mysite.com/?hop=mpaet3 So basically I wonder why I'm top ranked in Yahoo and Altavista, and on Google I can't even find my site on Google with the right address? I mean it should be "www.mysite.com/" instead of "clickbanknickname.cbfeed.com/" and "www.mysite.com/?hop=mpaet3". My site has been up for about three weeks and in the beginning it wasn't top ranked either, but at least it was at position no 3 and had the right address under description: Titel Description Description Description www.mysite.com/ So does anyone have a theory on why this has happened to my site? Note! In this samples "www.mysite.com" equals my actual site, and "clickbanknickname" equals my ClickBank nickname.
I am not certain of the reasons why, but here is my guess. Your site has been stung with dupe content, and Google has listed the clickbank url as the one that was original. With the long URL, that is how Google indexed it, and recieved the url, so at some point it must have been that. You will have to wait until Google does a full index again before it will change. Also there are plenty of things on the web about duplicate content, that might be a good place to start.
After reading about duplicate content, I agree with your theory. What you describe seems to be the case. Thanks for your help!