Here's my (short) story:I've made a website for a customer that didn't pay me.He bought a lot of domains:http://groupesynergies.com/http://groupesynergies.fr/and so on.Thanks to my work, he went up 5th in the google France search groupe synergies (against other websites that are far more huge).Maybe higher in some other countries.Then he said: I'll never pay you.Right.So I removed his domain names from my vhost, I bought groupe-synergies.fr (and only this extension), and put this domain in my vhost.1 day after this story, his website was down = 404 on every single page. There should have been a problem with google, right (kind of black list or whatever)?5 days after this story, an ugly picture saying website in construction (you still can check it out) appeared. No 404 anymore, but google should have noticed there weren't 24 pages anymore but only one ugly picture with no text inside, right?4 months after, his site still displays this crappy page.All good, all fine.But what I don't understand is this: Google registered all my webpages: try to google site:groupe-synergies.fr => 24 results.So here's the problem: only one ugly page on the same domain with different extensions against 24 pages, well done, w3c compatible, very fast response time and... it doesn't even show up if you google (in France at least) groupe synergies in the 20 first pages.Any idea how comes?My question is: why does his site still have a good page rank, and mine still doesn't appear? Where could the problem come from?Thank you very much!PS: please, oh please don't talk about laws, about what you did is bad and so on, believe me: I'm always trying to be as straight as possible, and what I did has a really good reason. Please just focus on my question, not on the legal stuff side. Thank you very much indeed.
Does same domain name, but with multiple extensions (com,org...) help for page rank?
seo;domain registration
First, to clear up something: PageRank (all one word) is a special algorithm that ranks pages based on how many incoming links it has and how important those links are. It is a number from 1 to 10. So if you are wondering why groupesynergies.com has a higher PageRank it would be purely because it has more and higher quality links pointing to it.However from the context of your question I'm assuming you are talking about the page's position in search results (often confusingly called 'page ranking' but better known as 'SERPs position' or 'search position'). There are a few factors:Google has an 'exact match domain' boost for when your query exactly matches a domain name. This doesn't include hyphenated domain names, so your domain is immediately at a small disadvantage.If you did a ton of SEO for the original site such as getting links pointing to it, then it will be better ranked. If you are able to, change those links to point to the new site.Google has no way of knowing that your domain is a 'new version' of the old one, unless you tell it. The method for this is a 301 redirect, so if it's possible you should add those domains back to your vhost and set them all to redirect to the new site.The fact that the new site has 24 pages but the old site only has one is irrelevant, since SEs rank pages not sites. The query returns just the home page.I must say that it is strange for a site to rank so high when it doesn't even contain the phrase you are searching for, and has clearly zero content. Maybe Google.fr still has a high weight for the exact match domain, and hasn't rolled out any of the 'Panda' updates that it has in English results.