Penalized by a frameset on another domain?

Hi,

I'd like to hear your opinions. I have a site that is being heavily penalized by Google SERPS since the end of April and i can't figure out why.

Thinking about it, I now realize that, basically, i have two differents domains showing the same pages/website. I wonder if it can be the cause of my website sudden drop in SERPS (old domain with unique content, I never bought links, link farms, bought traffic, etc, etc, etc).

Last year, I registered another domain (related) and asked the service provider to redirect it to my website. Here's how they did it on, say, www . MYOTHERDOMAIN . com index page.

<frameset rows="100%,*" framespacing="0" frameborder="0" bordercolor="White">
	<frame src="http://www.MYSITE.com" frameborder="No" scrolling="Auto" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
</frameset>

Code (markup):

Do you think this can be the cause of the sudden drop in SERPS of mysite?

Thanks for your help.
Filipe

 

What's the URL?

I've got two sites heavily penalized since the end of April and I'm not sure why. Thought it was because of some links but they've been removed for over a month now.

 

the framset is not the cause of your drop because google only reads the top frame not the bottom one.....it can't see content on the frame page...

Not because your site drops means it has a penalty....it could be that some of your links are not scored as high as they once were

 

Let me guess... April 27th?

 

I am not sure about the exact date but it was the last day or April or first of May.

 

not the -30 or -60 penalty myth again

 

i dont think google will give a punishment because of this but why do you need it?

 

No, there is no way another site with iframe to your site coud harm your Google positions.

 

Let's say you have a site on an old domain but you name the site "sitename". The website grows, you register the real "sitename . com", but you're "afraid" to move your website, so you decide to redirect sitename . com to the old domain. That's what I asked my internet service provider to do (and they used a frame to do it, instead of a redirect) a couple of years ago.

Thanks for the info.

 

Why not just create a 301 redirect just to be safe?

 

I would check the site with the frame and see if the content in question is indexed.
If it is, you could be suffering a duplicate content penalty.