Dropped Out of Google and Bing
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I am helping with a site that at one time I had on page 1 for Google/Bing. Site started to slip in rankings, then someone else did a makeover of the store and botched things by renaming pages, having errors in pages (multiple head/body), mismatch page names from sitemap, etc. Site slipped to page 4/5. I righted things, fixed duplication using canonicalization, made some other changes. Now site is gone completely from Google/Bing for desired keyword. No penalties. Site still shows if do search on domain name. Site is www.plussizeplum.com (plus size lingerie, sorry), keyword target is plus size lingerie.
Anyone have any clues, tips, etc on why we fell off the face of the earth? Page Authority/Domain Authority are both comparable to most of the page 1/2 sites for same thing.
Thanks for any advice.
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Thanks - I know about the apparent dupe there, I had canonical tag, removed it.
I'll check on reconsideration request,
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Anything in GWT? Doesn't look like a penalty on the face of it and the backlink profile isn't too bad.
I had a client that had something similar happen to them when they released a duplicate of their site in a different country. Ended up having to do a reconsideration request and everything sorted itself out after that.
One thing I have noticed is the following two pages are identical and Bing returns the top 1 as the first result.
http://www.plussizeplum.com/plus-size-lingerie/plus-size-lingerie.php
I'd run through the site with Screaming Frog, check for any duplicate pages and make sure the canonical tags are in place becuase I can't see any on either of the above two pages at the moment.
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