When taking snippets of text from my site and searching for them on Google , my website doesn't appear in any of the results but there are about 20-30 other results for the article on my index page, does that mean Google considers that page duplicate content?
I currently don't rank higher then page 5 for anything except my domain name, although, I used too(10 month ago) rank on the first page for lots of keywords. Website:
http://goo.gl/9YBAG
I wrote everything myself, but others have copied my content, is there a way to check if Google crawled there site before mine?
Thanks!
>> there are about 20-30 other results for the article on my index page, does that mean Google considers
>> that page duplicate content?
No, it means 20 to 30 other people are better at SEO than you are.
>> is there a way to check if Google crawled there site before mine?
Not really. Only Google knows what was crawled when. If other sites are copying you, you can issue DMCA takedowns against them and submit complaints to Google to have them delist the other sites. Good luck with that. You need to be able to show definitively that the content is yours and original. If the language is merely similar, you'll need to go back to the dojo and brush up on your SEO-fu.