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How to know when a blog post was published.

by aaronrobb
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I'm working on giving a website i bought a better ranking by ensuring that none of the previous posts were copied (I'm finding some were).
My problem is I can just do a google search for a bit of the content, and I'll see another website using it, but it doesn't have a date on it, so i have no way of knowing if they scraped my content, or if the previous owner took theirs.

Any thoughts on how to know the publishing date of a blog post that doesn't show a date??
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by aaronrobb View Post

    I so i have no way of knowing if they scraped my content, or if the previous owner took theirs.

    Am I reading you right? because it sounds like you stole the previous owners content and are now wondering if what you stole was stolen from you (or reclaimed by the rightful owner).

    Ummm....what does it matter? You going to call the cops? and umm say what?
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      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

      Am I reading you right? because it sounds like you stole the previous owners content and are now wondering if what you stole was stolen from you (or reclaimed by the rightful owner).

      Ummm....what does it matter? You going to call the cops? and umm say what?
      Sounds like OP bought an established site?
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      • Profile picture of the author aaronrobb
        Bought an established site, yes.

        Basically, this site has about 2000 posts, most of which existed when I bought it, and then I got hit by Google's update back in May, so now I'm working on cleaning up old posts and content.

        So my theory is I take the first line of content for a post, search it in google and if I see that it exists on other sites, I try to see if my site had it first, or if the other did(and was scraped from my site). Problem is the other websites that don't post a date with their content, so I'm then not sure who's came first.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by aaronrobb View Post

          Bought an established site, yes.
          Did the sale specifically include the content? If so then your OP makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. You wrote that like you did not know whether the content was yours. It doesn't matter if its the previous owner that took it. Its your content. You take appropriate action either way. There is absolutely no way to know when a piece of text was put on a website without a date on the site. Plus if it was there before the sale and not specifically indicated as exclusively your content then thats that as well.
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          • Profile picture of the author aaronrobb
            Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

            Then your OP makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It doesn't matter if its the previous owner. Its your content. You take appropriate action either way. There is absolutely no way to know when a piece of text was put on a website without a date on the site.
            I know it doesn't matter about the previous site owner, I was just wondering if there is an actual way to see if the content on my site is the original. Wasn't sure if there was a tool that somehow showed what was first indexed in Google.

            I think part of the site was built really before it was known that copying content (in this case, specific film summaries from places like IMDB or other blogs) was bad.

            Just is a lot of work to now go through 2000 posts! Oh well.
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            • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
              Originally Posted by aaronrobb View Post

              I know it doesn't matter about the previous site owner, I was just wondering if there is an actual way to see if the content on my site is the original. .
              Wayback machine - but chances are slim to none you are going to have both sites so well imaged you can go through all that content to tell. I'd just contact the seller. Even if he denies its him he may know to take it down when you tell him you are going after the person/site with it
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              • Profile picture of the author aaronrobb
                Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

                Wayback machine - but chances are slim to none you are going to have both sites so well imaged you can go through all that content to tell. I'd just contact the seller. Even if he denies its him he may know to take it down when you tell him you are going after the person/site with it
                Yah wayback machine could work. Thanks for the idea!
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    • Profile picture of the author aaronrobb
      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

      Ummm....what does it matter? You going to call the cops? and umm say what?
      Yes the content police. I hear they work closely with the sarcasm squad.
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  • Profile picture of the author aaronrobb
    I'm now also finding that analytics for individual pages that I assume Google sees as duplicate content will show the significant drop in visitors after the May update, so I'm going through the top 100 at least this way to see.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Nothing is going to work. Even if the pages have a date on them, the dates can be manipulated. I make posts on Wordpress sites all the time and backdate them.
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    • Profile picture of the author aaronrobb
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Nothing is going to work. Even if the pages have a date on them, the dates can be manipulated. I make posts on Wordpress sites all the time and backdate them.
      Good point. Google needs an 'indexed date' available eh.

      I'm just going to go with the pages that look like they plummeted in traffic since May and start there assuming Google knows what is copied content.
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