Here's my (short) story:

I've made a website for a customer that didn't pay me.
He bought a lot of domains:

    http://groupesynergies.com/
    http://groupesynergies.fr/

and so on.

Thanks to my work, he went up 5th in the google *France* search "groupe synergies" (against other websites that are far more huge).

Maybe higher in some other countries.

Then he said: "I'll never pay you".

Right.

So I removed his domain names from my vhost, I bought "groupe-synergies.fr" (and *only this extension*), and put this domain in my vhost.

**1 day after** this story, his website was down = **404 on every single page**. There should have been a problem with google, right (kind of black list or whatever)?

**5 days after** this story, an ugly picture saying "website in construction" (you still can check it out) appeared. No 404 anymore, but *google should have noticed there weren't 24 pages anymore but only one ugly picture with no text inside*, right?

**4 months after**, his site still displays this crappy page.

All good, all fine.

But what I don't understand is this: **Google registered all my webpages**: try to google `site:groupe-synergies.fr` => **24 results**.

So here's the problem: only one ugly page on the same domain with different extensions against **24 pages, well done, w3c compatible, very fast response time** and... it doesn't even show up if you google (in *France* at least) "groupe synergies" *in the 20 first pages*.

Any idea how comes?

My question is: "why does his site still have a good page rank, and mine still doesn't appear"? Where could the problem come from?

Thank you very much!

PS: please, oh please don't talk about laws, about "what you did is bad" and so on, believe me: I'm always trying to be as straight as possible, and what I did has a really good reason. Please just focus on my question, not on the legal stuff side. Thank you very much indeed.