Breadcrumbs in SERPs

[Paul78]

Hi there,

Breadcrumbs now showing for my websites in Google.co.uk & Google.ie

I have 2 websites .co.uk & .ie both having the same content. There are legalities for having 2 separate domains. Anyway...

When I click on one of the breadcrumbs in the SERPs in Google.ie it takes me to the .co.uk website, however the title for that result takes me to the .ie website as it should.

I have checked my breadcrumbs on the .ie website and all is fine, however in SERPs it takes me to the .co.uk website, any ideas why this maybe?

Kind Regards

[RobertFisher]

Gary,

When you say breadcrumbs, are you meaning site links? That when you click on one of the sitelinks it takes you to the wrong site?

[Paul78]

Hi Robert,

No, not site links.

Just an example:

Click here

Hope that clarify things.

[gcdtechnologies]

Hi Gary, I'm sorry I haven't come across that before but have you geo-targetted the sites through Webmaster? http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=62399

[Paul78]

Hi Alice,

Yes, both websites are geo-targeted.

What I can say is recently we added a canonical tag to the .ie website pointing to the .co.uk website as I belief it was having a negative impact on our ranking for the .co.uk website in Google.co.uk, so maybe the canonical tag has some sort of influence on these breadcrumbs?

When I look at the cached version Google has made in Google.ie of the .ie website, it shows the .co.uk version of the website, is this normal?

[RobertFisher]

Wow, that's actually kinda cool the way it renders, but I am going to say it is site links. First, I am on a MacBook Pro with 1920 X 1200 res. and was using Chrome latest when I hit the link you provided. I have attached the Chrome Screen Shot and then a Firefox Screen Shot.

If you look in Firefox you see the same thing resolving as Site Links more clearly. So, then i did search in Google.uk and Google.ie and used the same search menopause choices nhs.

Each time I got the .uk site. And, each time it was the .uk site that was in the serps. Always resolved to same.

If you look at the third image which is US non personalized search, you will see the first four results have sitelinks like you are seeing in Chrome.

Hope this clarifies.

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[Paul78]

Hi Robert,

Sorry, I am totally lost on what you trying to explain.

The issue is not the way these sitelinks or breadcrumbs look. If I am searching in Google.ie for a particular keyword which my .ie website ranks for, in the actual results it shows breadcrumbs which is great as it may improve CTR, anyway when I click on one of the breadcrumbs in takes me to the .co.uk website, however if I actually click on the title of the result it takes me to the .ie website as expected.

One thing I mentioned is that I am using a canonical tag on the .ie website pointing to the .co.uk website, maybe this is doing something? One thing I noticed is that if I looked at a cached version of the .ie website in Google.ie it shows the .co.uk website.

Hope the above helps

[RobertFisher]

Gary,

Yes, a canonical pointing to the .co.uk from the .ie is going to resolve as .co.uk. I have gone from every portion of the SERP listing on both (Google.ie, Google.uk). Whether on the title above the url or the sitelinks ALL resolve to .uk.

Also, on the pages I checked, there is no rel=canon for the .uk site you have.

I have yet to see in the SERPS any .ie page you have. So, are you sure both are ranking?

[Paul78]

Hi Robert,

What website are you looking for?

[RobertFisher]

Here is what the domain is that is resolving:

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Menopause/Pages/Selfhelp.aspx

I was looking to see if your nhs.ie was anywhere on the serps by looking at the actual links in the query code. I have yet to find an occurrence of the - .ie.

So, if you have both and one is for UK and one for Ireland, I would assume that at some point based on what you are saying I would see a url like above, but:

http://www.nhs.ie/Conditions/Menopause/Pages/Selfhelp.aspx

[Paul78]

Sorry Robert, that site was just an example.

If you click here

We should be listed no.2 for hot flushes

Domain is avogel