Hello I have three oscommerce shopping sites the sites are on different servers but they all share one database because it is too hard to change the stock on each site when i have more than one The sites are http://www.justbodyboarding.com http://www.thebodyboardshop.com http://www.662mob.com I just combined the databases about one month ago. Shortly after I did this my main site 662mob which ranked very very high for all my good keywords fell off the map Now even when i type in 662mob it does not show up I also had coop running on 662, but i took it off straight after I saw my site go away. please note justbodyboarding and teh bodyboardshop rank ok now but nothing like how 662 ranked before Do you think I am getting penalyzed for duplicate content or something because they all have the same products?
Probably duplicate content. If they are all served from the same DB and have the same text; it seems like the logical reason why. If you did 3 sites, each serving different products from the same DB, you might be better off
what about 3 different databases and 3 different servers/hosts the 662 site has about an extra thousand or so pages so it is pretty different