Freaky keyword ranking
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Hello SEO Pros,
We have a really strange issue with one of our websites. We have been in the first 10 natural results for the keyword "rendszergazda" with page http://systemfarmer.hu/rendszergazda for years. About 1,5 years ago somebody copied our webpage completely and google penalized us too. Till then we can not get back in the first 30, a week ago we are not listed in the first 1000!
No idea what happened. In Moz no issues, webmastertools no issues. Does anyone have any idea where to start?
Regards, Laszlo
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Does this site below belong to you? It is a replica of your page
http://systemfarmer-web.gopagoda.com/uzemeltetes/
When i take a snippet of text and put it in quotes in Google, that site shows up as the authority for that content. If you own that site I would look at canonicalizing it (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en) or at least noindex it.
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