Hi,
I’m a webdesigner based in California. Recently I encountered a problem with Google that could be made into an episode of the X-Files (for those who can remember what that is.)
Basically, if you accessed my client’s website through a Google search, an old depricated page would come back from the dead and kill my client’s business. I posted the whole problem in Google’s Webmaster Central but it is unlikely that I will be able to find any answers to this msytery.
I’m posting to this forum with the slim hope that someone with a similar experience may come forward. Or that the very least, I could find valid theories from Sitepoint’s experts as to how such horrible thing could possibly have happened.
Instead of pasting the whole issue, you can find the thread here.
Very bizarre. As I’m now getting the pictures of the correct number, it’s impossible to know what was happening before. If it happens again, what you could try is resaving the new page as index2, and then putting a permanent redirect from index to index2. That way, there won’t be an old version of the page to worry about because it’s a different page.
The only other thing I can think of is that Safari was using a proxy server - I know that Opera Mobile does that and other mobiles might do as well, which would explain why it’s only one device line that is experiencing the problem, although I’m not sure where your Linux box would fit into that.
Hi Stevie. The client’s website is Drupal based, so the pages are generated dynamically. Drupal does have an internal redirect mechanism you can use for its nodes, but that would not help the problem. The Google Anomaly (as I now officially call this) could be seen in various browsers and platforms.