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SEO - My Site is dropping, might this be the reason?

by delac147
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Hello,

My site is dropping on the SERP, and I was wondering if it could be because of the following:

I am updating my website and I have a xxxx.testing-domain-live.com, where I test my updates.

Is it possible that Google is picking up both my sites and detecting duplicated content? Which would explain my position dropping? or is this not related and my site is dropping for other reasons?

Many Thanks to all!
Marc.
#dropping #reason #seo #site
  • Profile picture of the author themew
    Password protect the domain in your hosting panel to prevent Google from seeing anything you're testing.

    This way Google (or anyone else) never sees your testing server, except you.

    If you have a static IP, you can also add that to your .htaccess file so that rather than a password box appear, any other IP gets a server error as if nothing exists on the domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author michaelkoehler92
    How long has been the new test domain active? If its for a long time then it could be possible since duplicate contents will create issue for rankings.

    You can also set that subdoamin to noindex for future works.
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    • Profile picture of the author rudi
      Unlikely, but have you blocked the search engines from your subdomain? if not then do it as you are basically publishing stacks of duplicate content
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    No. Duplicate content would not drop your rankings.

    The only thing that duplicate content on different sites can do is cause one version to be sent to the supplemental SERPs while the other version shows in the live SERPs. It doesn't cause drops in the rankings.
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliatemarketing
    Check your web hosting
    If you have a shared hosting, check the other web site
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  • Profile picture of the author MIlana
    Add meta noindex on your test website. Check with a fragment of text between quotes, to see if both versions are indexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cody Bidlow
    Do you have any competitors who could be doing negative SEO on your site??
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  • Profile picture of the author linkassistant
    Well, if your xxxx.testing-domain-live.com is not exactly mirroring your main domain and the content is not being published the same second as on your website then it is hardly possible that it can effect your rankings dropping. As far as we know there are tons of reasons for the rankings to drop, so it is better to look somewhere else.
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  • Profile picture of the author delac147
    Guys thanks a lot for the answers. We have deleted the testing domain since we have finished updating the main site. We are still checking what could be influencing our SERP position, but it appears that, whatever it was, our SERP position is improving again.

    Many Thanks!
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