Problem; Google has indexed a forward URL over my actual URL.
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Hi,
Over the past weekend I have noticed a strange change to my websites results on Google searches. My website afternoontea.co.uk normally ranks as No.1 (in the UK) for our main keyword "afternoon tea" and has been like this for many years. I own several other domains that are setup to forward the user directly to my website. In the past few days Google has indexed one of our forwarding URLs (GoForTea.com) in place of our actual URL (afternoontea.co.uk), and because Google has done this we have dropped slightly in the search results; e.g. my forwarding URL is now ranked as No.2 for the search term "afternoon tea" and my actual domain is nowhere to be seen for this keyword. I know my actual domain is still recognised by Google as it still shows up in other more specific search terms like "afternoon tea london" but most of the time it is shown is for sub-pages and not our index page.
Could anyone shed some light on why this might have happened, or if there was any actions I could take to rectify this so Google only indexes my actual domain afternoontea.co.uk instead of my forwarding domain GoForTea.com?
There has been no drastic changes to my websites design or content recently, the only changes made in the past week was adding the Google +1 button to my page and adding two new buttons that link to our Twitter and Google+ page. Would this have had any effect on these happenings?
Thanks in advance for your support.
Over the past weekend I have noticed a strange change to my websites results on Google searches. My website afternoontea.co.uk normally ranks as No.1 (in the UK) for our main keyword "afternoon tea" and has been like this for many years. I own several other domains that are setup to forward the user directly to my website. In the past few days Google has indexed one of our forwarding URLs (GoForTea.com) in place of our actual URL (afternoontea.co.uk), and because Google has done this we have dropped slightly in the search results; e.g. my forwarding URL is now ranked as No.2 for the search term "afternoon tea" and my actual domain is nowhere to be seen for this keyword. I know my actual domain is still recognised by Google as it still shows up in other more specific search terms like "afternoon tea london" but most of the time it is shown is for sub-pages and not our index page.
Could anyone shed some light on why this might have happened, or if there was any actions I could take to rectify this so Google only indexes my actual domain afternoontea.co.uk instead of my forwarding domain GoForTea.com?
There has been no drastic changes to my websites design or content recently, the only changes made in the past week was adding the Google +1 button to my page and adding two new buttons that link to our Twitter and Google+ page. Would this have had any effect on these happenings?
Thanks in advance for your support.