Google Search Showing Wrong URL In Snippets

Jan 17, 2020 - 7:17 am 2 by
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Google Broken Egg

Google is now showing the incorrect URL in the snippets. It isn't a massive problem because when you click on the result, it takes you to the correct place. But Google is placing a www on the URL when it is not there. For example, a search for [harwoods] shows harwoods.www.uk.com as the URL when it is really www.harwoods.uk.com.

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Going to harwoods.www.uk.com does not work but going to www.harwoods.uk.com does work.

Here is another example:

Google Breadcrumb Url Broken

Google's John Mueller said the Google search team is aware of the issue and working on a fix:

Here are more examples of the issue:

Hopefully it will be resolved soon.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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