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You should create a dedicated domain. I also recommend going after hosting in the languages' country that you most want rankings in. Check out Bruce Clay's International web - http://www.bruceclay.com

Wissam beat me to the link to SERoundtable. I quote that one at least once a week in here -- it's happening to a lot of people.

Sorry it was a bit late to help.

Well, first off, you don't have very much content on the pages to start, which could hurt you in the long run. Now to answer your question, I'd say that the content is very similar and in the end one of them will get filtered out and the other won't get filtered (this is all deemed by Google). They will both probably stay indexed, but unless you have unique and different content for both, one will stay in the SERPs and one will be in the supplemental index. That's my two cents.

It's worth looking at the Webinar video on Sitemaps for this one. It's just a month old so it's completely up to date. http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/getting-value-from-xml-sitemaps Sitemaps aren't just a case listing every page on your site anymore, they require a bit of thought and attention.

One of our sites has be quite well scraped already, and because we use absolute linking throughout the site we are getting a few links from the sites in question. I don't anticipate the links being worth a great deal but they may be helpful. Provided that you're using absolute linking and your content is getting crawled first it shouldn't be a problem. People will always copy good content, and it probably takes less time for them to scrape and set a site up than it does for you to do do something about it.

Thank you very much, it´s all clear now.

In addition to Daniel's response, I'll offer that having the same description on every pagination version page is not helpful, though if there are enough unique products on each page, and each has a caption and or price, and you optimize each product thumbnail alt attribute, it's not necessarily a duplicate content thing as much an annoyance factor for some users. Ideally it's best to have a unique description on every page, or only have the full text description on the default category page.  Be sure however to append every page Title, URL and h1 with "Page X" as an additional way to communicate both the uniqueness of each page and for users to know where in the pagination sequence they are.

Google actually has a very good overview of creating XML video sitemaps.  You can create a sitemap for your videos even if they are hosted by YouTube. From the page: "Video content includes web pages which embed video, URLs to players for video, or the URLs of raw video content hosted on your site." You can add video extension tags in your existing site, or create a standalone sitemaps just for videos.  Also, you can submit the sitemap through the wonderful Webmaster Tools. Good luck!

Or you can install the WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. If I remember well it offers the opportunity to hide the comments RSS (surely to not index it).

akitmane Are the errors you see pointing to pages that no longer exist?  If that's the case, the best fix that I've found with WP is use of the "Simple 301 Redirects" plug-in for WordPress.  It lets you enter the URL of the old page and the URL of a page you want people to go to if they try going to that old URL. If they're pages that never existed, the question becomes - why are people trying to get to pages that never existed? If they're innocent errors, or links from other sites where the person who made the link made a mistake in the URL, you can either use the Simple 301 Redirects plug-in for those specific links, or contact the site owner of the site that created the flawed link. Ultimately, you should have a custom 404 page set up (located in the same folder as the theme you're using for your site's template).  If that's not working, you will need a WordPress developer or consultant to help you figure out why.

hi Keri The problem went away after 3 days without us doing anything much. But the client was pretty antsy during those 3 days. I had posted on the Google forums, and one guy had suggested that there were problems with the dns  - the intodns.com tool highlighted some.  Possibly missing dns servers - there was unusual stuff in the intodns report. We don't manage the nameservers for the siite with the problem, so there wasn't anything we could do. The site was recrawled, possibly as a result of resubmitting the nameserver, and it was ok. thanks chris

I'd say continue contributing unique content and link building from relevant sites, and hang in there a few weeks. The changes can take time to show up, and I am glad to see that some rankings for words important to you have improved.