Hello, For several months now when I do a search in Google for my website, especially searching, site:mysite.com. I get results with my URLs, but not with the titles I made for those URLs. Instead, I get completely different titles - perhaps from other websites (Hijacked maybe?). For instance, a result for www.mysite.com/redwidgets, where I put Red Widgets for the title, instead shows a spammy title like Best selling weight loss drugs. However, when I click on the link, it will go to my website. Also, when I click on the little magnifying glass for previewing a site in Google SERPS, it's not my site in the preview, but when I click on the link, it will go to my website. Not to mention most of my webpages for my site are no longer in Google. It's all been horribly messed up since, I think, the March or April 2010 Google update. Anyone know what is going on and how do I fix this? Thanks!
Go ahead and put your site here so that we can help. An a screen shot of what you're seeing when you do a search.
Thanks DoDo and Guru! The website is http://www.varietyworkathome.com - http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss175/user055/hijackedtitle.jpg ( when I do a site: search my titles are hijacked and when I click on the cache it goes to their website. - It goes to my web site when I click on the URL in the regular results.) http://i573.photobucket.com/albums/ss175/user055/previewhijacked.jpg (when I do a preview shot, it's a shot of their site, not mine) I did get some help already. It turns out my entire account on my web host was hacked. All of the several websites I host on that DNS account are also showing wrong titles, domain redirects, hidden spam links. It's a mess! I'm in contact with my host's admins and hopefully it'll get worked out. But I will definitely come here if I need anymore help. Thanks so much!
It was cached on 7 Jan 2011. Try ti reached it again & see if Google refresh it data. This is the page it is showing in cached- http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...home.com/&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a
If you go to http://web-sniffer.net/ and enter your url in the box, then choose googlebot from the drop down list you will see it is 302 redirected. Any other user agent works as normal. check your .htaccess file for anything to do with googlebot or post it here. If not in your htaccess ask your webhost to check the server config files
Thanks RSS and Vagrant! I did upgrade my other hacked sites (that were made with Joomla and Wordpress) that are hosted on the same server as Variety Work at Home , and now Google shows that they are not being redirected, as does Web Sniffer. So, I'm going to have to try to update my Variety Work at Home site that's with Drupal. Hopefully it'll work too. Drupal is harder to upgrade because I can't do the One-Click upgrade anymore with my web host like I can with Joomla and WP - but I'll get it done! Thanks again.
you need to upgrate the security of your sites , use upgrated scripts etc , lots of hackers these days