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: Homepage not showing on Google About six weeks ago my homepage (mayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) disappeared from the google organic search for "kayaking pembrokeshire" despite it having been number 2

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About six weeks ago my homepage (mayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) disappeared from the google organic search for "kayaking pembrokeshire" despite it having been number 2 within a few weeks of it's launch last summer. My previous site (www.mikemayberrykayakingdotcodotuk) had been 2nd for about six years and has 301 redirects for all pages to the new site. Google toolbar still rates the homepage as 3/10 and the domain is still showing in search results, just not the homepage.

A little research suggests that this is most likely to be due to an issue with google treating two pages as identical content (one with and one with not) since the changes in their algorithms around that time and that the way to fix this is to add some code somewhere. This makes sense to me as my print advertising doesn't have the www part of the address.

I have cpanel access but a limited knowledge on web coding, having picked things up as I've gone along and paid for designers etc., when needed. Would someone be able to let me know where I have to go to add the code and what code I need to add to redirect the crawlers to one page?

Or is there another issue that is causing this?

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If you haven't already, generate a sitemap for your NEW domain (http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/), create a Google WebMaster Tools account (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/), and be sure to list your site under the URL you prefer (in this case, without the "www").

You can also adjust these settings in Google WebmasterTools under each individual site's dashboard > Configuration > Settings > Preferred Domain.

Within a few weeks (or less) you should see your organic rankings correct themselves, or at least have detailed feedback from Google as to what is causing the errors, etc, as they provide them in your WebmasterTools dashboard. It does take some time, though.

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