maxb - 3:44 pm on Sep 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

Scary stuff indeed. The power of google never stops to amaze me. Seams like whatever you do, you are always under its control. It can (and will) turn your business off and on overnight.

Regardless of how many sites you have or their content. Seams like the most important ones always take the hit.

Into a more positive note (hope i am not jumping too soon), i just noticed some of my keywords back on the SERPs and into the same if not a better position.

Traffic is still at 0-10% of what it used to be but my web logs now starting to show more google traffic (in the past 6 hours).

Hopefully it is just an update, HOPEFULLY.

P.S.
Another wired thing i noticed was that the traffic to the site spiked by approx 35% a couple of days just before dropping to 0 (on 26 Aug). I also noticed a major googl crawl around this date.

In reply to ChronicFatigue:
Yes some of the content (approx 500 pages) were duplicated on the new domain (not 100% duplicated more like 50% duplicated, different description and different overhaul look and page structure + i added more links on the new domain pages etc.)
Assuming it is a penalty for duplicate content, wouldn’t google penalize the new site (and not the old site) because if otherwise then anyone can cause sites to drop of the SERPs just by duplicating their content and submitting the new domain to google. Logically, if there is content duplication penalty then it should be imposed on the new site and not the old one.

Thoughts on this please?