Penalty Detection
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Hi Experts
In a Single VPS with 1 IP, I have 2 domains. two months ago, one of them was in top 10 of high Competitive Keyword but from beginning of 2017 when I use site:aslejens.com the title of main page replaced by another domain on the VPS vahidafshari.com.
Is it a Google penalty?
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it just dropped for 1 keyword and others are stable
and when I search brand its appear in SERP
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Hey Vahid -
A few questions for you:
- Have you seen a drop in traffic to either?
- When you search the brand name in Google, does the correct title appear?
The site: command is notoriously misleading a lot of the time, so much so that some Googlers have hinted that it might be going away. I also don't read your language so I can't really investigate too much further other than looking at canonicals and such and they all seem correct.
I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you have the same content on both, then you should look into making that unique to each site, and maybe change the page title on the wrong one to see if that helps.
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