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I wouldn't worry too much about it. I would expect Google to discount the duplicate links, but not penalize you. I have had my articles picked up and syndicated across spammy site networks and get a bunch of links before - I don't think it helped me much, but it didn't hurt either.

Just focus on getting more high quality links to improve their link profile and give them a greater variety.

Can you share the site you are getting that error for?

You might also want to email help@seomoz.org

Well, Google typically shows a mixture of web and Places results for local queries.

To get ranked among the web results for the second city, just adding a page to your website could work. To get ranked among the Google Places listings, you are going to need an office in the second location and create a Google Places listing for it.

Google seems to indicate that Pilotenausbildung is the correct version and the others are misspellings. I would optimize for Pilotenausbildung, but also make sure you sprinkle the other two versions in a few times onto your page.

Manuel,

I can think of a couple good options:

Use meta tags to set page to noindex,follow so search engines won't index the page, but they'll pass the link juice on to other pages on your site.

Let the page get indexed, and use the canonical meta tag to ensure that only one version is indexed.

SEO does work. I've gained thousands of top rankings on through effective SEO strategies, and many others here have done the same or better.

"spending thousands of dollars and doing everything possible, I don't even have one keyword in the top 50 after about 5 months of keyword optimization and SEO"

Many of us would be happy to provide you some guidance if you would like help!

So according to http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/thread/bbf97020226534f3 the Google CSE API cannot be used to get SERP data, and there is no legal automated way to get SERP data. I'm guessing that there must be, though, as I'm guessing SEOmoz isn't breaking the Google TOS? Any input would be appreciated!

"so have started using AJAX to stream in the content google was previously picking up for meta descriptions"
Do you mean you are using AJAX to display some of the content on your page so Google won't use the content as the snippet in the SERPs?

"since the day of that change our bounce rates have gone up significantly"
What are you using to measure bounce rates?

"Is it possible that doing this caused Google to treat our site differently"
By Google do you mean Google Analytics or Google organic search?

In summary you are saying that you made a change that influenced what text Google shows as SERP snippets (only for some pages) and that has caused your entire site's bounce rate to increase?

There are non-public databases that many online yellow page-type websites get their data from. I don't know where to find a list of them, though. Sorry I can't be more help. Maybe someone else will chime in with suggestions.

Are you sure this site is the source Google Places is using to add the location? Another possibility is that this site and Google Places are both getting their data from the same source...

The site doesn't appear to be fully functional, that's for sure. Hard to say - maybe it is an abandoned or unfinished website, or maybe they just have some broken features. It almost looks unfinished to me - like they started building it and didn't finish.

Thanks, Ralph. I'm wanting to know about the data source, not the software - what API or methodology software programmers can use to access Google SERPs data.

I can't give you a definitive answer, but I can offer some input regarding page speed.

As far as I can tell (and see) page speed is NOT a big factor in Google's algorithm, but a minor one. Google and Matt Cutts have both stressed that it is less important than other factors, and that "fewer than 1% of search queries will change as a result of incorporating site speed into our ranking".

I'm not saying you shouldn't pay attention to site speed, but don't stress about it, as it's not one of the biggest factors.

I would shy away from using an iframe for a couple reasons, including a) Google is starting to read flash and b) using a iframe could look a little suspicious.

Hope this helps!

Yes and Yes! You can certainly get two pages ranked for the same keyword.

Check out these resources:

http://andybeard.eu/1376/google-double-indented-listing.html

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/draft-whiteboard-friday-getting-indented-listings

What's the best way to programatically get Google SERP data (i.e. like I assume SEOmoz's Rank Tracker Tool does) since Google has deprecated their web search API? Will the CSE API (http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html) give you accurate SERP listings?

We need the ability to get a list of urls ranked on the first page for Google for a keyword, hopefully including universal search results (videos, news, images, etc.).

You've got the right idea. Just be very certain that the url used in the canonical is the correct url for each page.

You will need to programmatically add the canonical tag to every page on your site (just make sure you do it correctly!) so that every page has a tag indicating which is the canonical version of that page (the version without the setCurrencyId variable in the url).

Here are more details on the canonical tag.

Another possible solution would be to use GWT to instruct Google to ignore that variable in the URL.

A lot of the power of video marketing lies in providing content that users are going to love, rate well, share, etc. I'm not saying you shouldn't promote an advertisement video, but you lose a lot of the power of video marketing.

Is there something you find yourself needing to do, but there is no tool to help you do it? A task you do all the time you're sure could be done easier with a nice app?

I'd love to hear about it! If we like your idea, we'll create it and make it 100% free (for linkbait, of course!).

Use the canoncal meta tag.