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[Steven Wang]

No, the other site has not lost any position. This is what I did so far. I removed all the articles from the other site. So the contents will only show up in melanomapictures.org. I hope google's robot will search both sites soon. 

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Barrie North <barrie at compassdesigns.net> wrote:

> From: Barrie North <barrie at compassdesigns.net>
> Subject: Re: [joomla] google listing question
> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 10:18 AM
> *allegedly* Google have told us there is no
> longer a "duplicate content penalty"
> 
> But, Google might consider your other site with the same
> content the "real" one. Has that lost any
> position?
> 
> 
> Barrie North
> www.joomlashack.com
> www.simplweb.com/joomla
> www.compassdesigns.net
> 
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> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:03 AM,
> Mitch Pirtle <mitch.pirtle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not an SEO expert but have learned over the years
> that content
> 
> that is presented in identical fashion on two sites is a
> bad thing,
> 
> and that the second website indexed will be punished for
> it.
> 
> 
> 
> The thinking is that some folks tried to game the system by
> making
> 
> thousands of identical websites with identical content, in
> order to
> 
> overload the top of the list for their chosen keywords.
> Their plan was
> 
> to make sure ALL links on the first page went to one of
> their
> 
> websites, even if all of them were the same.
> 
> 
> 
> I'd reconsider republishing content from one site to
> another - or move
> 
> the content from one to the other before the next index
> from
> 
> googlebot.
> 
> 
> 
> Maybe another Steve from Atlanta would like to weigh in?
> 
> 
> 
> -- Mitch
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Steven Wang<sqwang01 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> 
> > I have a site melanomapictures.org
> that was listed as #8 on google search. On monday, I added
> 30 articles to the melanomapictures.org
> from my other site. Now, I discover google droped my listing
> to #300 in just 2 days.
> 
> 
> >
> 
> > How did this happen? Does google think I
> "stole" the contents from someone else? If so, how
> can I fix this?
> 
> >
> 
> > many thanks
> 
> > Steve
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
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