Our site has a test domain, e.g. if our site was example.com, our test domain is something like example.club. This domain is only accessible within our office or on our VPN, which I tested and does continue to be the case. Because of that, I thought Googlebot should not be able to read it, let alone even know about it. The description in the SERP that Google is using is the meta description on the page, so Googlebot must be reading it somehow. Is Google using Chrome data to do this?
This test domain is ranking for our brand. And not a little, it's the 2nd result when I search for our brand, above all sorts of other results that should rank well, like our app pages, social media profiles, wikipedia listing, etc.
Our brand has some decent authority; Moz puts it at a 70+ domain authority and our page authority for our home page is 60+, so ranking here is non-trivial.
Did some tests from my home network and in incognito mode, and I still see the test domain. So I don't think it's any sort of weird personalisation going on.
My first thoughts are to try something like set canonicals from the test pages to the real pages, or disallow the test pages in the robots.txt, or noindex them, but as the test pages shouldn't be accessible to Googlebot to begin with, not sure any of that really makes sense to do.
Anyone have any ideas on how this is happening and what I should do? Anyone else seeing anything similar to this going on?
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