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[Please help!] Google thinks my main money site is Spanish o.o

by MonopolyMan
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I recently changed one of my money sites theme and the SERPS went from #1 to page 100+

It took a large cut of my earnings with it but it wasn't entirely unexpected since I know large changes like this can cause a shake up and it takes time for Google to settle again.

But I searched today on Google.com for mydomain.com to see if it has cached the recent changes and I noticed something.

Google thinks my site is in Spanish.

The title and description shown on Google is in Spanish (and not really related) and it offers to translate it over to English.

Back on page 10 or so it has an internal page which is ranking with it's correct title/description at least but it's the homepage which is showing up in Spanish and that's what usually ranks.

So this apparently has happened. Since the title is in Spanish it's obviously no longer my main keywords which might explain why the rankings have plummeted.

I just can't figure out why it's happened or how to fix it. My site title etc... is set (I've used platinum SEO for while) and the <title> tags are normal. Whatever Spanish that title and description is coming from is not in the page source.

I'm no great shakes with HTML but I can't see anything which should be telling Google that my site is Spanish.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">

I mean surely that alone should say it's English. If you know... all the English isn't enough of a hint.

I'm assuming the new theme has something to do with it and I'm going to revert to the old one today, but I can't see anything in the code which should be causing that.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?
#google #main #money #site #spanish #thinks
  • Profile picture of the author MonopolyMan
    I just checked the cache of the page and it is a Spanish site.

    The domain was pre-owned but I bought it a long time ago. In fact It's been ranking #1 for at least 9 months or so now with my keywords.

    Only thing I can think is Google has somehow rolled back the Cache of the site to over a year ago and based it's ranking on that.
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  • Profile picture of the author MonopolyMan
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    This is the site showing up for the cache of my domain. This is not my site not does it have anything to do with my site. Why on earth is Google showing their site for my domain?

    This is starting to look pretty fish to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
    Do you have Google Analytics installed on the site? If so, I wonder if there are any tools in the webmaster tools area that will help Google to classify your site correctly.
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    • Profile picture of the author MonopolyMan
      Originally Posted by rosetrees View Post

      Do you have Google Analytics installed on the site? If so, I wonder if there are any tools in the webmaster tools area that will help Google to classify your site correctly.
      I'm setting it up now to try their 'google fetch' tool but web-sniffer.net shows the site normally so I don't know what good this is going to do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Ditfort
    LOL, maybe it's something to do with the theme, I don't this it's Google. When clicking on the website it comes up in Spanish which mean's it's not Google but some you have done. Check the theme out, maybe there's a setting or something. Or maybe you accidently changed a setting in the wp settings.
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  • Profile picture of the author MonopolyMan
    No the site itself comes up in English just fine. It's Googles cache of it which is not only Spanish - but an entirely different site. It's not the theme I've ruled that out now.

    Apparently it can be due to DNS or shared server problems. Contacting my host and installing Analytics.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Ditfort
    A problem I've never dealt with before, maybe it would be best to contact you hosting provider or domain, and ask for assistance.

    Hope you solve your problem,
    Good Luck
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  • Profile picture of the author MonopolyMan
    So it turns out the problem is not that Google thinks my site is Spanish. It's that it's actually showing a completely different site in it's cache.

    Contacted my host to ask them to check the server configurations and submitted a new site crawl and sitemap to Google. Hopefully this will clear things up.
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  • Profile picture of the author zaco
    I think Google visited your site while you are doing the changes and at that point they couldn't reach it so they pulled information from their cache.. which was the old one..hope it gets fixed
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  • Profile picture of the author rackemup
    That's really bizarre. Hope you get everything straightened out pronto!
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