Google Indexed Site A's Content On Site B, Site C etc

[cwscontent]

Hi All,

I have an issue where the content (pages and images) of Site A (www.ericreynolds.photography) are showing up in Google under different domains Site B (www.fastphonerepair.com), Site C (www.quarryhillvet.com), Site D (www.spacasey.com). I believe this happened because I installed an SSL cert on Site A but didn't have the default SSL domain set on the server. You were able to access Site B and any page from Site A and it would pull up properly.

I have since fixed that SSL issue and am now doing a 301 redirect from Sites B, C and D to Site A for anything https since Sites B, C, D are not using an SSL cert.

My question is, how can I trigger google to re-index all of the sites to remove the wrong listings in the index. I have a screen shot attached so you can see the issue clearer.

I have resubmitted my site map but I'm not seeing much of a change in the index for my site. Any help on what I could do would be great.

Thanks
Eric

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[Paddy_Moogan]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the question.

Are you able to register each of the duplicate sites with Google Search Console? If so, you could do that and then use the Fetch as Google feature which then lets you submit pages to the Google index. So you could enter the URL of a page that is now redirected and ask Google to recrawl it.

You could also setup sitemaps for the duplicate sites and submit those to try and prompt Google to recrawl them.

Hope that helps!

Paddy

[cwscontent]

Hi Paddy,

I do have access to all of those domains so I can set them up in search console. Would I setup the https version in search console and then run the crawl?

I have about 100 urls on each site that are wrong. Its not a huge deal for me to do it manually but is there a faster way to have it submitted and recrawled. If I do the sitemap would I enter in the old urls that are indexed or the new url that I want it to go to?

Thanks

Eric

[Paddy_Moogan]

Hi Eric,

I'd set up a profile for whichever version of the URLs 301 to your main site. So if the https version redirects, then use that one.

I don't think you need to submit every single URL, I'd recommend submitting a handful of the main ones (in terms of traffic or site architecture) and asking Google to also crawl all links on the page.

On the sitemap, you'd enter the URLs that have redirects in place which is your old site. In your example, this would be sites B,C and D which all need their own Search Consoles + XML sitemaps for the pages on those sites with redirects.

Cheers.

Paddy

[cwscontent]

Great thank you I'll give it a shot ant let you know how it worked.

[cwscontent]

Hi Paddy,

Its been a few days since I added the sites into webmaster tools and I'm now seeing the following (attached image) on all of them. Would that be correct or is there something else that I need to do?

Also when I submit a sitemap for the sites with the 301 redirect it loads up the sitemap on my correct site (since its a redirect site). I assume that would be correct but just wanted clarification on that.

Thanks

Eric

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[Paddy_Moogan]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the update.

The screenshot showing the 301 is correct - all good there.

Regarding the sitemap, sorry I should have been clearer on this - can you exclude that from the redirects so that when Google crawl it, they don't get redirected and instead find all of the URLs from the old site?

Cheers.

Paddy