Why is my website is getting redirected from search engine results?

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I have a website hosted on GoDaddy. The issue is, when I search for it on Google or Yahoo the result corresponding to the website has the right URL and description displayed, but when I click on that link, it takes me to some other website. Note that the title of my website is also displayed wrongly by search engines.

  • This is on multiple search engines.
  • This is not from just my computer but on all computers.

What is the issue here?

learner

Posted 2015-05-26T15:22:17.050

Reputation: 518

If I were to hazard a guess? Your website has been hijacked or you are not reading the search results correclty. if you believe your website coudl have been hijacked, nuke it from orbit, and restore the files from a clean backup. – Ramhound – 2015-05-26T15:27:51.053

If you enter the URL into your address bar, does it work? – David Schwartz – 2015-05-26T16:28:42.707

Can you add some screen shots? – Julian Knight – 2015-05-26T16:47:36.217

@DavidSchwartz, yes it work properly then. – learner – 2015-05-26T18:18:24.167

@learner Did you look very, very carefully at the URL on the search engine and ensure it is precisely the same as the one you are testing? Make sure you get http versus https right and www.example.com versus example.com right. – David Schwartz – 2015-05-27T10:43:56.277

@DavidSchwartz, there is no http or https in the search result URL and I don't type in http or https when I visit the site manually. There is www in the search result URL though. I don't usually type www when I visit the website manually. Does it matter though? Another important note: when I copied the search result URL into the browser, it took me to the right website, but in the status bar, I could see the name of the spam website at some point. Any way I could investigate this? – learner – 2015-05-27T11:12:49.230

1@learner If you don't understand those details or whether they matter, you're going to have a hard time tracking this down. The answer is yes, all those details matter. Most likely, it has nothing to do with the search engines -- they're just finding some URL that goes to some other web site hosted by GoDaddy on the same machine as your site. – David Schwartz – 2015-05-27T11:37:35.220

Answers

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Please check the source code of your website and if you find any weird changes in your source code rectify it and then check it once again.Also change the password to your Godaddy account ,maybe someone's trying to use your account to get visits to their sites.So changing the password of your account might help!!

John Edge

Posted 2015-05-26T15:22:17.050

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