Question for the SEO people
 

So this is what happened. I'd like to know what can be done or what would you do in my place ?


So i have a page in plain HTML , couple of months ago it started ranking in the top 5 for my niche keywords. Recently I found a forum and bought a 3 month banner there, to better keep track of the sales I registered another domain and copied the contents of my original page, the only change was the affiliate code and the domain being without "s" so my original page is for example: "icreams.com" and the duplicate was "icream.com"

Now I see that my original page is not showing up for the niched keywords and also when you google its name, the duplicate shows up.

I figured out google may be confused witch one is original, so I added "
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> to the duplicate page.

What would you do about it ?
Thanks in advance.

link rel canonical to the original domain from the new one

Use the canonical tag to define which is the original and which is the copy.
See: https://moz.com/blog/canonical-url-t...since-sitemaps
WG

Thanks for the help ! i added " <link rel="canonical" href="http://originalversion.com" />
" to both versions

Adding no archive to the duplicate one can help to completely remove it from the index if google already cached it. You can add it the robots meta data. That way you can erase all memory of it in google search since the crawler already indexed it. If everything fails you can also use robots.txt to disallow google bot to crawl your duplicate page entirely.