Please I need advise...

Hi Guys.
I am not a pro. Just try to market my own activity.
I built my wordpress website. I had few graphic issues and asked for help. Somebody who is supposed to know offered to help. He said he did not want to mess up my site so he created a test environment. I assumed he meant on a local server. Site is online and I was doing some basic on page seo and all of a sudden I see a copy of my website on serp next to mys site, on a URL http://www.blabla.com/test... The guy made a back up of my site and put it on his webspace...
I know Google hits heavily duplicate content and guess what... 24 hour later my site is gone from serp while the "test site" is still there...
I could have overoptimized with key words in the alt text, but I am afraid the main issue is that google indexed the test site pages, found all of them duplicated, but for some reason hit my website and not the copy...
Now I wander if just removing the duplicate site will recover the situation... the pages are now indexed...
And If I republish the same content on a different URL is going to be even worse... three copies of the same stuff...
Do I have to trash all the work writing content ?
Please advise..

Take the 2nd site down and submit your original site's sitemap again.

You could also try redirecting the blabla.com/test to your main domain as well.

Next time, hire only a qualified professional and not some rookies playing with your site while they're still at learning stage.

Thanks
I will give a try.
Finger crossed

I wander if we should submit a sitemap of the test site after removing the duplication of my pages...

alffront said:

I wander if we should submit a sitemap of the test site after removing the duplication of my pages...

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SpoonFeeder said:

submit your original site's sitemap again.

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I got it. I will.
I jusy wander if there is a way to tell google not to index those duplicated pages from the test site after removing them.