cache of .com for the .nl domain, what’s the mystery

You may like to read the overall conversation to understand the context but the overall question is “Why is there a .com cache when I am check for cache:example.nl”, these are some of the example:

1. It is doing a 301: Sometimes it can also be a cloaking where Google bot is redirected to a different page. The famous darkseoteam used to do it http://blogoscoped.com/forum/4754.html. Sometimes it may not be that big as cloaking but the user is redirected based on an IP. If GoogleBot was using an US IP then the content that it fetches is a US content (which may be a redirect to .com website). In simple words, see if Google is getting redirected to .com when browsed with its IP. You can browse as GoogleBot and see the issues yourself (but this will not allow you to check the IP of Google). To check the IP of Google, you will have to see your raw log and get the details and run your system with that IP (or ask the developer/client for any such settings, sometimes these settings can be at DNS level)
2. Check the canonical tag: I did check the canonical tag but in this case the canonical tag wasn’t there. In case if the canonical tag is specified as .com then it can take the cache of .com.
3. For more checks do a site:example.nl and see caches for different pages. In this particular case I see some of the pages are having a .nl cache and some of it is having a .com cache. Then I did check the robots.txt of both to see any stop but all looked fine.
4. Time factor: There is another possibility that the website was redirecting at one point in time when Google cached some of its pages and now it is not redirecting, so you may like to see another data cache of it to verify the time factor.

Also remember Google is a smart and dumb engine, if can act differently for different languages http://www.jeetbo.com/seo/multiple-language-website-seo-advice.html. Since in your case I see nl to be same as the .com except the language. You may like to see the settings.

Johny: hi
Aji, i have one question regarding seo
if you have time may i ask
me: yeah, please
Sent at 7:58 AM on Friday
Johny: suppose there is a site – www.xyz.com but when we search – cache:www.xyz.com, it should the google catch result of another website : – www.yyy.com
y this happen
Sent at 7:59 AM on Friday
me: 301 redirection
Sent at 8:01 AM on Friday
Johny: but the site doesn’t redirect to different domain, rather it redirect only from non www to www version
me: show me an example
Johny: ok

http://www.example.nl/

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://www.example.nl

you yourself check this website’s cache
cache:www.example.nl
Sent at 8:05 AM on Friday
me: for me the cache is right http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=523&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.nl%2F&btnG=Search
Johny is typing…

check out the text written over there in the cache
“This is Google’s cache of http://www.example.com/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 21 Aug 2010 21:03:15 GMT. ”
but the site is – example.nl not example.com

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