Why did Google Index a weird version of my blog post?
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i wrote a page - https://domain.com/how-to-do-xyz/
but when doing an inurl search, i see that it is indexed by google as - https://secureservercdn.net/58584.883848.9834983/myftpupload/how-to-do-xyz/ (not actual url)
and when i view that page, it is a weirdly formatted version of the page with many design elements missing.
this is a wordpress site. Why would this be?
thanks,
Ryan
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Thanks Paul. It is just this page that the issue is with. it is also a brand new site that isnt ranking. so hopefully it resolves itself eventually.
Thanks,
Ryan
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That's the staging URL for GoDaddy-hosted sites, Ryan. It likely means that when the site was being developed under the hosting account's temporary URL, it got indexed by the search engines.
It's also possible there's a domain resolution issue on the hosting server. Are there any other pages showing this problem?
The reason its display is broken is because the CSS and JavaScript on the page will be getting called from the wrong URL, so they can't resolve and format the page content.
Paul
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