Curious why site isn't ranking, rather seems like being penalized for duplicate content but no issues via Google Webmaster...

[izepper]

So we have a site ThePowerBoard.com and it has some pretty impressive links pointing back to it. It is obviously optimized for the keyword "Powerboard", but in no way is it even in the top 10 pages of Google ranking.

If you site:thepowerboard.com the site, and/or Google just the URL thepowerboard.com you will see that it populates in the search results. However if you quote search just the title of the home page, you will see oddly that the domain doesn't show up rather at the bottom of the results you will see where Google places "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 7 already displayed".

If you click on the link below that, then the site shows up toward the bottom of those results. Is this the case of duplicate content?

Also from the developer that built the site said the following: "The domain name is www.thepowerboard.com and it is on a shared server in a folder named thehoverboard.com. This has caused issues trying to ssh into the server which forces us to ssh into it via it’s ip address rather than by domain name. So I think it may also be causing your search bot indexing problem. Again, I am only speculating at this point. The folder name difference is the only thing different between this site and any other site that we have set up." (Would this be the culprit?

Looking for some expert advice as it makes no sense to us why this domain isn't ranking?

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[izepper]

Thanks for your response. I agree that we are indexed and why when you do search for "thepowerboard.com" and or "site:thepowerboard.com" that we show up. However it is rather odd that when you search (using quotes) the title of that page that it is suppressed as explained above.

Which makes us think that there may be a duplicate content issue. There is really no reason why it shouldn't be ranking in the top 10 especially with a link coming from MTV.com.

There has to be either some issue with Google, and or a backend issue with the way the site is set up.

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