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we have a .com site and also got the .co.uk
I have been making good search result improvements and had a lot of pages indexed too and I get 1st and second page resuls for our some of our keywords which is great!
A month or so ago a whole bunch of pages dissappeared from googles index both .com and .co.uk. .com now just has 12 pages when it had 30+ and .co.uk just has 1 page when it has 15+ before. ( There was a lot of overlap )
I thought this was a penalty for duplicate content so I spoke with our hosting company and they said :
""You don't have replicated content per se, as you only have one web site - chemresist - which has two domain names pointing at it .co.uk and .com at the moment you have two sites at one IP address.""
Could anyone please explain to me what they think about my theory and our hosting companies theory and whether I should just dump the .co.uk now. ( I'd like to keep it )
If I dump it, should I contact Google and tell them my thoughts appologise etc.. and that I have dumped what I thought was causing the problem?
The site home page seems stuck at PR3 too and although I know I have some decent PR3 PR4 and PR5 links incoming Google doesn't show them..
Any help, suggestions would be appreciated.
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If this is the case then you may have a duplicate content issue. If you can surf it like 2 different websites then Google will view it as two different websites with the same content.
Generally when this happens only one domain will suffer and the remaining stronger domain will continue to rank.
What I would do is decide on what domain you want to use as your primary domain name and simply redirect all traffic from your other domain to the preferred domain. To do this you would use a permanent redirect.
Mack.
When you enter to the site as .co.uk you remain at the .co.uk and when you enter as .com you remain at the .com
So basically it looks like 2 identical sites.
So duplicate content exists. I have noticed a drop in the pages indexed almost proportional to the overlap that was indexed.
I think I will re-direct the .com to a landing page for now and request to remove it from googles index and then send in a not and appology and ask for re-entry on the pages that have been un-indexed in the .com
Thnaks for the help.
Mike
This not only works for browsers but also for search engines. By doing this it's almost like saying "we have moved here" This will remove your duplicate content issue.
Mack.
