Question on Google's Site: Search

[jeff_46mile]

A client currently has two domains with the same content on each. When I pull up a Cached version of the site, I noticed that it has a Cache of the correct page on it. However, when I do a site: in Google, I am seeing the domain that we don't want Google indexing. Is this a problem? There is no canonical tag and I'm not sure how Google knows to cache the correct website but it does. I'm assuming they have this set in webmaster tools?

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks!

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi there

You will want to add canonical tags to the indexing site to the site you want indexed. Is there a particular reason you have two sites?

[jeff_46mile]

Hi Patrick,

The name of the business is fairly long so they decided to purchase a shortened version of the site but I believe setting up a redirect would be the best solution... But as for my question, if I do a site: in google and both websites are populating the search results, does this mean that Google is indexing two versions of the website?

[PatrickDelehanty]

OH! I am sorry for the confusion - yes, pick the site you want to index and redirect the site you don't want to be indexed over to the new site.

To answer your question, yes, both sites are being indexed.

[jeff_46mile]

Okay that is what I figured. Thank you