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Hi, Indeed the stage site is still out there .. http://screencast.com/t/ZbmvsYE7njYv Again, that's easy to fix  - if you want to - as you just need to verify the site in Web master tools and then use the removal tool. For the main site - your visibility is low now -> http://screencast.com/t/PQzdxTih Can you identify in this graph when the stage site was pushed into the index ? (in order to see if that was the reason for any drops in visibility / rankings) Anyway - the main site was not very stabile even before .. the link profile is not strong enough to set it on a stabile course.

Thanks Ryan.  Very helpful.

Thanks so much.  That's perfect.

You're welcome! I understand your problem, and the canonical cannot solve it. It only works for internal duplicate content. I saw something about a external canonical, but it looks like you're going to pass your relevance to another site, and you don't want that!  ; ) Do you and your competitors have too many duplicated content? I would suggest you to write your own content in the cases of external duplicate content, and this way go ahead of your competitors! Have I answered your question? If so, click the Good Answer button! =]