Q and A: Has Google banned our site?
Dear Kalena...
Found your wonderful site and hope you can enlighten me on the intricacies of Google. Our website www.breatheonline.com recently used to rank very highly for most yoga keywords, particularly involving "private yoga" and all London postcodes. Now it has disappeared altogether. Although our more recent www.breatheyoga.co.uk which points to the original domain is still in there.
I now suspect that Google has taken a dim view of our "cloaked" text which you will see if you "select" near the bottom of any page on the site. I wasn't aware until I had a proper look at the guidelines that Google was against this practice. Is it possible that they have simply banned us or something? How can we redeem ourselves?
Hope you can help.
Many thanks
Robin
Kalena's Answer:
Dear Robin
It's pretty simple really. Your sites contain identical content and Google has simply decided to index one and ignore the other.
In your case, Google has decided that www.breatheyoga.co.uk is the main site and www.breatheonline.com is the duplicate. Your UK domain has a Google Toolbar PageRank of 4 out of 10, around 14 backward links and 23 pages indexed by Google, while your "main" domain has a zero PageRank, no backward links and no pages indexed.
Strangely, neither site is showing in the Google cache but I can't see any caching references in your code. It might be something to do with your domain hosting set up. It also looks like you've removed whatever "cloaked" text you are referring to - that's a sensible thing to do.
To solve your duplicate content issue, I would implement a 301 redirect from your "main" domain to your UK domain as soon as possible, or make sure both sites are on the same IP address, with one parked and redirected to the other.
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Found your wonderful site and hope you can enlighten me on the intricacies of Google. Our website www.breatheonline.com recently used to rank very highly for most yoga keywords, particularly involving "private yoga" and all London postcodes. Now it has disappeared altogether. Although our more recent www.breatheyoga.co.uk which points to the original domain is still in there.
I now suspect that Google has taken a dim view of our "cloaked" text which you will see if you "select" near the bottom of any page on the site. I wasn't aware until I had a proper look at the guidelines that Google was against this practice. Is it possible that they have simply banned us or something? How can we redeem ourselves?
Hope you can help.
Many thanks
Robin
Kalena's Answer:
Dear Robin
It's pretty simple really. Your sites contain identical content and Google has simply decided to index one and ignore the other.
In your case, Google has decided that www.breatheyoga.co.uk is the main site and www.breatheonline.com is the duplicate. Your UK domain has a Google Toolbar PageRank of 4 out of 10, around 14 backward links and 23 pages indexed by Google, while your "main" domain has a zero PageRank, no backward links and no pages indexed.
Strangely, neither site is showing in the Google cache but I can't see any caching references in your code. It might be something to do with your domain hosting set up. It also looks like you've removed whatever "cloaked" text you are referring to - that's a sensible thing to do.
To solve your duplicate content issue, I would implement a 301 redirect from your "main" domain to your UK domain as soon as possible, or make sure both sites are on the same IP address, with one parked and redirected to the other.
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