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by candoit2
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I've seen a site have double listings for a single keyword.

I'm getting four of ten, and it's all from the exact same page and keyword.(Even headline)

It's not duplicate listings though.

Even though it is the same page and ranking for the same keyword the listings are all showing different portions of the same page in the description.

Google is basically indexing each paragraph on the page as a new listing, and giving them the same headline, but having unique descriptions showing.

This is for a brand new site and domain. I set the page up in a way I've never done before but am not sure why Google is reading it this way.

My site is only partially indexed at this point, so maybe the listings will disappear on the next update? Anyone have an idea of what is going on?


Aaron
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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Hi Aaron,

    That sounds interesting. Are the URLs identical? Are you using URL parameters? Are you using 302 Temporary redirects?

    My guess would be that it is some sort of canonicalization issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    Google does indeed pick what it thinks is the most RELEVANT description depending what the user is searching in Google. You cannot "force" Google to take a certain text to display in the listing - in fact, META descriptions are actually being ignored.

    So what you see is actually normal.

    One example would be one and the same, identical blog post which has a variety of keywords in it, for example using tags which contain long tail KWs.

    The post might rank for its main keyword with whatever description Google pulls, but it might ALSO rank for another keyword, but then displaying the part with the other keyword highlighted i the listing. Eg. sometimes it could rank because it has a KW in the post tags, and the listing only shows "Headline - tagged as [keyword], [keyword]..." etc.

    Addendum:

    This is actually important to know since one posting/article CAN and DOES indeed rank for many different keywords. (While the main keyword of course is usually the one with the highest ranking since the article might not be optimized for the additional keywords). But it shows how useful it is to use related keywords ..and NOT only look at one single keyword and ignore zillions of other keywords which can bring traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      Originally Posted by GeorgR. View Post

      Google does indeed pick what it thinks is the most RELEVANT description depending what the user is searching in Google. You cannot "force" Google to take a certain text to display in the listing - in fact, META descriptions are actually being ignored.

      So what you see is actually normal.
      Hi GeorgR,

      I agree that part of what he said is normal, however I thought his point was that the same page was listed multiple times on the same SERP with the only difference being different text snippets for the descriptions. That is definitely not normal.
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      • Profile picture of the author candoit2
        Originally Posted by dburk View Post

        Hi GeorgR,

        I agree that part of what he said is normal, however I thought his point was that the same page was listed multiple times on the same SERP with the only difference being different text snippets for the descriptions. That is definitely not normal.
        Yes, that is what is happening.

        BTW ... my page I am using is a .cfm page (Not .html).


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        • Profile picture of the author dburk
          Originally Posted by AaronJones View Post

          Yes, that is what is happening.

          Aaron
          Hi Aaron,

          What about my previous questions? URL parameters? Redirects?
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          • Profile picture of the author candoit2
            Originally Posted by dburk View Post

            Hi Aaron,

            What about my previous questions? URL parameters? Redirects?
            No redirects. Not sure what you mean by URL parameters. I've been online for yrs but I really do not know the techi stuff. I'm usually just paying people to do things for me or using softwares that do most of the work.

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            • Profile picture of the author dburk
              Originally Posted by AaronJones View Post

              No redirects. Not sure what you mean by URL parameters. I've been online for yrs but I really do not know the techi stuff. I'm usually just paying people to do things for me or using softwares that do most of the work.

              Aaron
              Hi Aaron,

              I believe you answered my question with your previous post. I suspected that they must have been different URLs. However, it would have been something new and interesting if Google was actually indexing at the sub URL level.
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        • Profile picture of the author candoit2
          Actually I think I solved it. What a dummy I am.

          The urls are not identical. It is adding a new page number to each listing.

          http://mydomain.com/section--my-keyword-phrase_p01.cfm
          http://mydomain.com/section--my-keyword-phrase_p02.cfm
          http://mydomain.com/section--my-keyword-phrase_p10.cfm
          http://mydomain.com/section--my-keyword-phrase_p16.cfm

          Not all have been indexed, but it looks like up to 16 pages could end up being indexed..

          It is all coming from the same page, but it is treating it it looks like as if there are 16 pages there.

          The main thing is that it wasn't pulling multiple snipets from the page and listing them with an identical url.

          It is assigning them new page numbers.

          Must be something to do with .cfm and how I set it up.

          I'm the least technical guy on the forum so I can't even begin to explain what I have done.

          I guess though having multiple spots is a good thing so I won't worry to much about it and hope they stick.

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