A client asked me to build a simple web site that would offer plastic products for sale. Their parent company already has a website
Minnesota Diversified Industries (MDI): Quality manufacturing of corrugated plastic products that performed poorly as a sales tool for his purposes and he wanted a separate site geared more toward the individual products with less emphasis on the company.
I suggested a new domain name
PLastic Totes, Plastics Containers, Plastic Sheets, Corrugated Shipping Products, Plastic Decoys and Plastic Wildlife Blind Material. MDI Sells Plastic he agreed and we soon discovered that the parent comapnay already owned this name along with several others. After a bit of corporate wrangling, they agreed to give me an ftp location on their server to publish the site. I uploaded the site and immediately found it coming up as
PLastic Totes, Plastics Containers, Plastic Sheets, Corrugated Shipping Products, Plastic Decoys and Plastic Wildlife Blind Material. MDI Sells Plastic instead of .com
I was concerned, contacted the company etc.......I'm not really sure why they did this, but initially the site came up well in searches and it did generate some sales traffic so there was no apparent problem. Now the search performance has dropped off and so have the sales calls. According to Google, (our site) mdiplastcs.com has no pages indexed and I see no indication that it's been crawled since I submitted the sitemap back in February.
Is it too early to be concerned? or is the duplicated site under the .org domain causing problems?