A company i did some work for ( I am a learning amatuer), had three sites. Their main one and two others which were just variations of the original domain name i.e domainname.com and thedomainname.com and domain.com the reason they had three was if one was done they told a customer they could get info on the other ones. They didnt link to each other or anything like that but they did have the exact same content on them. This was nothing underhand it was just the way the company always had it. So we got the main site optimised and it started showing up in search engines like google etc. I also made the same changes to the other sites (Please believe me when I say I honestly didnt know any better - duplicate content etc.). So the main page disappeared completely. I read up and removed the other pages with same content. After 5-6 weeks the page started showing up again in Google but instead of being on page 1-2 its showing on page 4,5-6 will this continue indefinitly or will it pass after a while thanks guys G
Duplicates really hurts you, you loss good points and now you got to work better to regain. Maybe being hit before will slow you down to get on the top. Refresh your contents.