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The problem is finally resolved. We rewrote some main content on the homepage + changed the menu, so the 2 websites look different now. We had to wait again a few weeks for Google to update, but since today, it's back ok. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for your answer. Good that your problem is resolved.

I'm not convinced that the duplicated website is the real trouble. Because a lot of websites work like this, a domain for each country, that's why you can also set a country in the webmaster console, no?

We have the same setup for Belgium and Holland, the same for Germany and Austria.

How to be sure this is the trouble?

It's of course possible to combine the websites but we made it like this because we felt people like to order on a domain that is from their country...

We will consider it anyway...

Hi,

I wanted to share an update on this topic.

Last week, we changed both websites www.conseilfleursdebach.fr and www.lesfleursdebach.be to HTTPS. Short after that, our homepage of www.conseilfleursdebach.fr was back in Google. I thought the problem was solved. Homepage back, good cache, higher in position.

Unfortunately, by today, the homepage is gone again and the cache of www.lesfleursdebach.be is back for www.conseilfleursdebach.fr.

I also saw in Google search console that a lot of links go between the 2 websites. The strange thing is, I can't find those links... (see screenshot)

This problem is on for months now. Nobody have a solution?

Kind regards,

Tine

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Hi Remko,

Thanks for your answer. Yes, the geo targetting is set correctly.

Updating IP address (and so a different server?) might be a bit more tricky to test. But maybe it's the only way out??

Kind regards,  Tine

Hello,

Thanks for your answer. I went through your topic, but most of the things I already checked and gave no solution.

It would be strange that Google suddenly see it as duplicate content as the websites run like this since years and target is set to different countries.

I hope you get answers soon. I will follow your topic as well.

Good luck.

Hello,

Some time ago, I already asked a question here because my homepage disappeared from Google for our main keyword. One of the problems that we showing up was the Google cache.

If you look to the cache of the website www.conseilfleursdebach.fr, you see that it show the content of www.lesfleursdebach.be. It's both our website, but one is focus on France and the other one on Belgium.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.conseilfleursdebach.fr&oq=cach&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0j69i60j0l2.1374j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Before, there were flags on the page to go to the other country, but in the meantime I removed all links from the .fr to the .be and opposite. This is ongoing since January.

Who has an idea of what can cause this and most of all, what do do?

Kind regards,

Tine

Thanks for your help.

It's strange that the fr. is even working. That should not work, I wrote it in my previous message, but the . was the end of my sentence

I don't think that could be the problem, but it's good to know and to fix it anyway!

Hello,

I noticed that the cached version is going to the Belgium website instead of the French website (who is dropped). Any ideas what can cause that?

The content is country specific, there is no redirect, each page has a 200 status, there are no links and Google console is showing thousands of links between the 2 websites... something is going really wrong but no idea what...

Thanks for your input. I already thought about it too, I saw the article before, it was around that date that we dropped.

But I don't see any troubles with our website regarding mobile.

Hi,

Thank you for your answer. Nothing has changed lately. That's the strange thing.

I checked a lot of info in the Google webmaster tools, but nothing unusual. The page give a 200 status code, the pages indexed are normal, there is no warning or message from Google, robots are not blocking, no meta tag blocking from indexing, redirects are ok, ...

We have a more or less duplicate website but this website is for another country and have some country specific changes. This is already like this since years. The domain extensions are different and the matched the good countries to it.

The website is www.conseilfleursdebach.fr.

Kind regards

Hello,

Since 2 weeks, our website is losing positions in Google. After years on the first page, we dropped for our main keyword to the 3rd page. Seems that all the positions we lost, were ranking with the homepage. Now, we are on the 3rd page but with a less important page.

How is it possible that only the homepage disappeared? Is there any explanation for that?

I hope there is an explanation, so we can fix the trouble.

Kind regards,

Tine