(Entry was posted by Neil Cheesma on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 04/07/2017).

An entirely duplicate homepage created by the hosting company

WTF! Springs to mind. A website that was until last year hosted on PowWeb (dotcom) - today I found that having been hosted with them (moved last year) and still live - they had created a `clone` of the homepage of the website, with all of its content - as an `account` page. And this was live (until today) as a `sub-domain` account page as awebsite.powweb. So an entirely duplicate homepage created by the hosting company. I know it is usual for a hosting company to create an account page with minimal information - but a whole page?!

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David Kutcher: was it a clone... or was it simply an internal method of accessing the website, which you had "moved off" by simply redirecting the DNS? It`s quite possible your original site is still there, and still accessible via that internal-usage sub domain.
Neil Cheesman: But surely websites don`t have a `duplicate` clone like this on all hosting servers? or would they be there but `redirected` while being hosted with them?
Neil Cheesman: I have never seen this with a hosting company before... I have seen `account pages` with info, url and a thumbnail
David Kutcher: Yea, I have a feeling that they never actually deleted your account and data, they just left it there. So the website was always still accessible via the internal-usage sub-domain.
Neil Cheesman: No, all of the content was removed (or so it was thought - advised that when moving hosting that all content would be removed - clearly not - it seemed to be just the homepage) but is now!
David Ogletree: That is done by a lot of hosts. Not a big deal. Google knows about this and ignores it.
Rishi Lakhani: Happens all the time

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An entirely duplicate homepage created by the hosting company

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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