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Hi Jacob and Lynn,

Thank you for the responses. The servers are based in the same country, and Lynn I think I agree with you that it might be a red herring.  One thing I noticed just yesterday (while using MOZ's crawl results btw) is that each new property / product we launch has two pages. Our system creates a page using the identical content and identical page title under the root domain and under /investments.  For example:

http://patchofland.com/investments/single-family-rehab-in-new-jersey.html

and

http://patchofland.com/single-family-rehab-in-new-jersey.html

Could it be that we are such a new site, with such few links, that a duplicate content penalty like that on a significant percentage of our pages could cause us to drop that far?

Thank you again!

Jason

Hello Everyone,

I'm a longtime Moz user but I had to switch accounts after switching jobs. I was hoping someone might be able to give me some insight on whats going on if possible. Our startup had first page position for our most valuable keyword: "Crowdfunding real estate" for about 6 or 7 months. Once we launched and switched to a production server behind load balancers, we dropped almost overnight to 7th page and we've been there for about a month.  We don't have many links yet and some of the ones we DO have are kind of spammy (no idea where they came from and in process of trying to get them removed) but we thought it'd be strange to see that massive drop. We are even pages below a competitor who has NO links and basically zero content on the page.  We don't have any notifications in WMT about a manual penalty or anything.  I'd really, really appreciate any advice and If anyone has any ideas, the page is at: PatchofLand.com

Thanks,

Jason