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On our main site, we pay for google adwords, and search engine submission. We just put up a new branch site which has no adwords, no search engine submission, and 1/10 the traffic of our main site. How is it that in 3 weeks the new site has replaced our main site in google and msn search?
Soooooo, you have a bunch of sites that are essentially exact copies of each other, except for contact data? That alone is enough to put you at risk of getting in risk of trouble with the SE's.
Are all these sites on different URL's? Subdomains? Also, just out of curiosity, how well linked is the new site (the one that took place of the main site)?
When duplicate content issues are involved, the SE's sometimes have trouble sorting out which site/page deserves to be shown. First one published doesn't always get featured. I've seen numerous examples lately of newer, lower PR pages dup pages replacing original pages.
