Google Search Results Showing IP Address Instead of Domain Name Issue

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Dear Warriors

Why Google shows ip address in place of domain name in search results

Example: http://www.xyz.com
Google also shows http://116.112.202.2 as same home page in search results
http://www.xyz.com/page-a As http://116.112.202.2/page-a

What is this issue with Google
Have seen many websites experiencing this issue

Does 301 redirecting ip to domain name resolve this issue?
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  • Profile picture of the author kulwantnagi
    Even I have seen this while exploring backlinks of my competitor's sites..

    Would love to hear the answer from experts.
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  • Profile picture of the author smartcat
    yes, better contact your hosting provider and tell them to make the configuration to not chow the IP
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Doubtful it's a DNS configuration.

      Did you buy an old domain that was indexed with ip?

      What it means, is google indexed your domain using that.

      Did you make any links using that? Even internal?

      Did you have nothing on the site and redirected it to the ip first?

      What does it show on Bing? If it shows domain on bing, no harm, no foul.
      Just tell google what you want to show, like using WMT.

      Can you type it in, and the domain name stay? If so, it's not fatal.

      You could do an experiment. Set up a 301 or other rule to redirect. Simplest first
      plan, from ip to your domain. Wait, see if it clears up.

      Check some of your cpanel settings.

      After any of that does not work, you might have to do a little digging into some
      of the admin files if it uses a CMS of some kind.

      301 or htaccess should actually clear it up.

      To be clear:
      Isn't it up to you to change the DNS? Why would you ask your host to do that?
      What does changing a DNS have anything to do with it?
      It would not most likely be a server issue at the host level.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author LuckyIMer
    Use 301 permanent redirect to redirect the IP to the domain name.
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  • Profile picture of the author LethaHyde
    only hosting provider can do something on this i think
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  • Profile picture of the author kishoreseo
    Its better to use IP canonicalization, Use 301 redirect for the IP address of your site.

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^116\.112\.202\.2
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.xyz.com/$1 [L,R=301]

    replace xyz with your website url, your problem will be solved
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