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Absolutely. New sites shoot up and down the rankings like a yo-yo.

Then for a few months to a year they're often in a "sandbox":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_Effect

If your site has a large % of content that's appeared previously on other
sites, then you might be stuck in that sandbox for longer.



On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Steven Wang <sqwang01 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> it is a new site. it is up for less than 6wks. Again I added the contents
> from my other site to the new site. Does this have anything to do with it?
>
> --- On Thu, 8/20/09, Joomla Training <info at joomlatraining.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Joomla Training <info at joomlatraining.com>
> > Subject: Re: [joomla] google listing question
> > To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> > Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 8:34 PM
> > Changed the site on Monday and dropped like
> > a rock on Tuesday?
> >
> > That's likely to just be co-incidence. Not even Google
> > moves that fast 98% of the time.
> >
> > That kind of movement sounds like you have a relatively new
> > site ... is that true?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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