Google crawler showing cache of another page

[9dot9]

For the page http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Laptops-and-PCs/top-10-laptops-124.php google is showing another page in cache (http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Ultrabooks/top-10-ultrabooks-153.php). Please let me know how this happened and how to correct it.

[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi,

First things first, the page, http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Ultrabooks/top-10-ultrabooks-153.php is not in Google's index.

Secondly, for both the phrases, 'top 10 laptops' and 'top 10 ultrabooks', the page,

http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Ultrabooks/top-10-ultrabooks-153.php, ranks in the first position from your website, thinkdigit.com

So when you try to look-up the cache for a non-existing page in the index, Google tries to return the closest match and which is, http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Ultrabooks/top-10-ultrabooks-153.php

I see a problem with the Sitemap.xml file for your site. Its not comprehensive and if you look at the cache of it in Google, you will see, the page, http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Laptops-and-PCs/top-10-laptops-124.php is in there but its missing in the current Sitemap.xml file.

Here are three things you might do to make http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Laptops-and-PCs/top-10-laptops-124.php in to the Google's index.

1. From Google webmaster tools account, Fetch as Google the above page and submit.

2. Come up with a comprehensive Sitemap.xml file

3. There is no reference to the Sitemap.xml file from Robots.txt file. You can add it as follows:

Sitemap: http://www.thinkdigit.com/sitemap.xml

You should be good after that. All the best to you my friend.

Regards,

Devanur Rafi

[Milian]

Your slightly actually incorrect Devanur, the reason the wrong page is cached is because the page previously had a canonical tag referencing the other page.

If you look at the cache of http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Laptops-and-PCs/top-10-laptops-124.php  ::::  Click Me

You will see in the source code a canonical tag for the other page:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Ultrabooks/top-10-ultrabooks-153.php" />

And the info at the top of cache page confirms Google is counting the one page as the other (see attachment)

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[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi my friend, if you look at the cache of the URL you gave:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Laptops-and-PCs/top-10-laptops-124.php  ::::  Click Me

You are actually looking at the source code of the following page:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Ultrabooks/top-10-ultrabooks-153.php

To confirm this, look at the meta data in the source, it says Ultrabooks.

Now comes the issue where the rel=canonical implementation is incorrect on both the pages as they both point to themselves. Check out the source code of both the pages. Their rel=canonical attributes point to themselves. So as per my original explanation, Google is showing the cache of /top-10-ultrabooks-153.php for top-10-laptops-124.php which is the actual issue at hand. So when you look at the source code of cached page, you are actually looking at the source code of /top-10-ultrabooks-153.php page.

Best,

Devanur Rafi