Duplicate content or Duplicate page issue?

[Workaholic]

Hey Moz Community!

I have a strange case in front of me.

I have published a press release on my client's website and it ranked right away in Google. A week after the page completely dropped and it completely disappeared.

The page is being indexed in Google, but when I search "title of the PR", the only results I get for that search query are the media and news outlets that have reported the news. No presence of my client's page.

I also have to mention that I found two URLs of the same page: one with lower case letters and one with capital letters.

Is this a duplicate page or a duplicate content issue coming from the news websites?

How can I solve it?

Thanks!

[Kurt_Steinbrueck]

If you have the same content in the press release as you put out there for the news sites, then it's a duplicate content issue.  Rarely does Google penalize sites for duplicate content (especially when it's just one page), they usually just choose one version and list that and then drop the others from the listings so they don't have a hundred results with the same content.  My guess is Google is choosing to list the news sites over your client's site.

How authoritative is your client's site?  Did you use a canonical tag?