Google Puzzler

[gilkesy]

Basically, some time ago ALL the sites that I manage dropped out of Google for their main key phrases.

For example "uk luggage online" used to rank my site http://www.uk-luggage-online.co.uk pretty well with Google. Now it has disappeared.

I was wondering what factors all my sites had in common for them to all be dropped by Google.

However, I've just discovered that the phrase "uk luggage online" does show one of my sites (this particular site is the secure part of the http://www.uk-luggage-online.co.uk site). This is located at http://vault2.secured-url.com/club-shopper/index.asp

It seems strange that Google would rank so differently 2 pages that are practically identical.

Is it because they are hosted on different servers? Is it because the site has been registered by a different person? Why are they so different in the eyes of Google?

[adore]

If these 2 sites are 'almost identical' as you said, there might be a possibility that Google turned on the duplicate content filter which means that only one of sites will be ranked properly and the other one will have significantly lower SERPs.

[gilkesy]

I know what you mean, but for some reason Google has dropped all the sites that I manage:

www.mrlinsurance.co.uk
www.faxshot.com
www.uk-luggage-online.co.uk
www.uk-watches-online.co.uk
www.cruickshanks-oast.co.uk

for their chosen keyword/phrases.

I guess I'm just grasping at straws for an answer