I run a website http://sciantechnologies.com/.
Now, if you go to that URL, it loads fine, however if you google search “Scian Technologies”, it will return a link that looks like this:
Which if you click on it, will redirect you to the correct URL, but for some reason it seems to pick up a 403 along the way. Funny thing is it leaves the correct URL in the address bar, and if you click on that and press enter, it works fine.
I didn’t set up anything special here – it’s just a wordpress site… anyone else had this behavior or have any ideas? I’m really scratching my head over it – it doesn’t seem to make any sense!
Google has indexed your base domain (not including www).
You’ll want to put a 301 redirect to your www subdomain.
Then wait for Google to reindex your site.
For those of you who use a web provider for hosting and hit this issue, I have managed to fix this. The support team were completely useless. Anyway, I fixed this by deleting my virtual host in the gui panel (which the support team actually advised me against) and recreated it. I never saw their virtual hosts config (they refused to show it to me) but I’m guessing when I installed wp using their magical installer script, it made changes to the virtual host configuration (most likely mod rewrite related) which I had no visibility of. Deleting the virtual domain then wiped this and started cleanly again. Note if you’re doing this:
Hope this helps someone!