: Google is indexing wrong page for search terms not on that page I’m having a problem … the wrong page is indexing with Google, for search phrases “not on that page”. Explained …

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I’m having a problem … the wrong page is indexing with Google, for search phrases “not on that page”.

Explained … On a website I developed, I have four products. For example sake, we’ll say these four products are:


Sneakers (search phrase: sneakers)
Boots (search phrase: boots)
Sandals (search phrase: sandals)
High heels (search phrase: high heels)


Error:

What is going “wrong” is … When the search phrase “high heels” is indexed by Google, my “Sneakers” page is being indexed instead (and ranking very well, like #2 ). The page that SHOULD be indexing, is the “High heels” page (not the sneakers page – this is the wrong search phrase, and it’s not even on that product page – not in URL, not in H1 tags, not in title, not in page text – nowhere, except for in the top navigation link).

Clue #1 … this same error is ALSO happening for my other search phrases, in exactly the same manner. i.e. … the search phrase “sandals” is ALSO resulting in my “Sneakers” page being indexed, by Google.

Clue #2 … this error is NOT happening with Bing (the proper pages are correctly indexing with the proper search phrases, in Bing).

Note 1: MOZ has given all my product pages an “A” ranking, for optimization.

Note 2: This is a WordPress website.

Note 3: I had recently migrated (3 months ago) most of this new website’s page content (but not the “Sneakers” page – this page is new) from an old, existing website (not mine), which had been indexing OK for these search phrases.

Note 4: 301 redirects were used, for all of the OLD website pages, to the new website.

I have tried everything I can think of to fix this, over a period of more than 30 days. Nothing has worked. I think the “clues” (it indexes properly in Bing) are useful, but I need help.

Thoughts?

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