Cached Alternate URL appearing as base page

[oliverkuchies]

Hi there,

I'm currently targeting Australia and the US for one of my web-pages. One of my web-pages begin with a subdomain (au.site.com) and the other one is just the root domain (site.com). After searching the website on Australian Google and checking the description and title, it keeps the US ones (i.e. root domain) and after checking the cached copy, it was cached earlier today but it is displayed exactly as the American website when it is supposed to be the Australian one? In the url for the caching it appears as au.site.com while displaying the American page's content.

Any ideas why?

Thanks,

Oliver

[DirkC]

Oliver,

Would it be possible to give the actual url - without this info it's very difficult to guess what could be causing the problem.

rgds,

Dirk

[oliverkuchies]

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[DirkC]

Hi Oliver,

It seems that there is something wrong with the way you have implemented the hreflang.

If I test the hreflang with http://flang.dejanseo.com.au/ it indicates a problem with the AU version.

I would try to generate the tags with this tools http://moz.com/blog/using-the-correct-hreflang-tag-a-new-generator-tool and test again. You could also read this article about common mistakes: http://moz.com/blog/hreflang-behaviour-insights

Hope this helps,

Dirk

[oliverkuchies]

Hi Dirk!

Appreciate the response. I've had the error fixed on the site you gave me so i'll have a look whether it'll improve overtime. Thanks!

[DirkC]

If you want to speed up the process a bit you could do a fetch as Google for both urls and submit them to the index. This should normally updated the cached versions as well.

rgds

Dirk

[oliverkuchies]

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[oliverkuchies]

Hi Dirk,

Thanks so much for your efforts however; the problem still is left unresolved.

Can anyone else offer any possible suggestions?

Kind Regards,

Oliver

[oliverkuchies]

Issue found: http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/80935/google-caching-subdomain-as-root-domain?noredirect=1