Been hit by a penality

[Sven]

My domain dropped from the serps on the 27th.

I'm listed, but always low in the serps, even for searches that are unique to my site.

If I take a portion of text from my home page that is 100% unique to my domain, then search for it (with speech marks surrounding the text) my domain always comes up last in the serps. (Other pages come up, as a example http://www.allonesearch.com/explain-tote-betting.htm, they take portions of the sites content and display it next to the adverts, so these types of sites come up, then mine, always at the bottom).

I've been number 1 for some very competitive phrases for over 14 months now, I rode all the storms. I've hit a penalty, does anyone have similiar experiences? How did you "get back"??

[karated]

Can you PM me the URL and one or two of the previously ranked terms?

[crazyhorse]

I just checked for the word "Explain Tote Betting Bookmakers" and you came up third out of 1500 results, you aint in the last posisition from what i can see overhere...

[rtheodorow]

How do you know if you have been penalized or if your site is just getting beat by the competition?

[eCommando]

when you search the keyword on google, after the results come up, append "&filter=0" to the Google Search URL.
See if your site ranking goes up.
If it does then it could be a duplicate content filter.

a lot of foreign sites are copying our sites.

Try this:
http://www.[yourdomain].com.1bu.com

[rtheodorow]

How do you add the &filter=0? When I try it google actually searches for that string.