On one of my sites, I created a subdomain to experiment with Drupal.
So I used the content from my other site...
Could google think that I copied my OWN other website and penalyzed it?
Robert Charlton
1:53 pm on Feb 16, 2015 (gmt 0)
In my experience, yes... and in fact if they have hosting in common or cross-link, something you might do with your own sites, then the problems might be worse.
But with dupe content, it's not a "penalty"... it's a filter.
FranticFish
7:56 pm on Feb 16, 2015 (gmt 0)
YES. They could (and have done).
It might be a filter but it sure seems like a penalty if you zap yourself with duplicate content.
So, interesting side-point on the difference between a filter and a penalty. If you can recover by changing something simple (a tag, a hostname, a file) then it's a filter? If not, it's a penalty?
Oimachi2
1:43 am on Feb 17, 2015 (gmt 0)
First of all, let me clarify:
www.a.com is the site that was penalized
www.b.com is my other site
www.a.com/b is the site I created using the content from b.com on subdomain a.com
I dropped 5 pages in one shot.
Now I deleted www.a.com/b
So now the content is not duplicate anymore on the penalyzed site, how can I tell google, any tools, or just wait?
netmeg
1:30 pm on Feb 17, 2015 (gmt 0)
Just wait.
jamesd168
9:37 pm on Feb 17, 2015 (gmt 0)
wow, this is a big price to pay with a small experiment.
I have been experimenting with some basic descriptions on the website, and have seen traffic going down like crazy.
in your case, you may want to resubmit a sitemap with updated content, i.e. after removing the www.a.com/b
netmeg
10:37 pm on Feb 17, 2015 (gmt 0)
wow, this is a big price to pay with a small experiment.
Google isn't too pro on experiments that create duplicate content (and double their crawl to no good purpose). I don't know what the nature of your experiment was; if it was just to mess around with Drupal and you needed to populate it with your content - you should lock that up behind a password so Google doesn't ever see it in the first place.
Oimachi2
1:11 am on Feb 18, 2015 (gmt 0)
The experiment was to see how the site displayed on mobile phones.
I'm working on the site from Local Host, but needed to ask friends how it looked live.
The domain name www.a.com had some space left on the account, www.b.com was full
I've been doing this for years and never had a problem...google is getting more finicky I guess..
How long to get out of a penalty on average?
netmeg
3:03 am on Feb 18, 2015 (gmt 0)
It's not a penalty, it's a filter, and it could be a week and it could be a year. Probably depends on all your other signals.
Next time put a password on it, or noindex the whole subdomain or folder.
