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Thanks Phil, That was my guess, I just wanted confirmation, and between you and the folks at Wistia sounds like that's the most plausible explanation. Thanks everyone for taking the time to help out with this!

Honestly, most people just ignore it. But I'll leave the discussion open for awhile in case someone has some other solution/s to the issue and found them worth pursuing.

Hey Jay, I checked two of the pages: http://www.downpour.com/catalogsearch/advanced/byNarrator/narrator/Seth+Green/?bioid=5554 and http://www.downpour.com/catalogsearch/advanced/byAuthor/author/Solomon+Northup/?bioid=11758 against each other in a duplicate content checker (http://www.webconfs.com/similar-page-checker.php) and they returned a similarity percentage of 67%, which we definitely shouldn't be showing as duplicate. (We consider pages at 90% or more to be dupes.) I went to check on your crawl to see if it might be a bug and it looks like the number of duplicate content errors has gone down a lot with the crawl that took place today and none of these pages are included as duplicates, so it may have been a temporary bug. If you see these pages counted as duplicates again. Please let us know so that we can look into it further. Hopefully, this helps! Chiaryn

Hi Downpour, It all depends on your budget and resources available to manage the sites efficiently. Local domains is still the commonly recommended for best results however on the SERPs but it really depends on the business. Heres a recent article I read that might help. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2049274/International-SEO-Core-Considerations Regards Rob

Like you said, how you do it has the most impact for how reciprocal links are treated. As far as penalties are concerned, if you're going for sitewide blogroll type links, if you use exact match anchor text, you could be slapped with Penguin. Best to stick to your brand name for links like that. If Google feels like the links are there just to manipulate search rankings, then those links will stop passing value, as in zero link juice. But again, it's all in how you do it. It's completely natural for sites in the same niche to link to each other. As long as it doesn't look spammy or like you're linking to each other just for the sake of search engines, you should be fine.

Hi Guys, I was going to post a separate question here., but this thread seems to have answer the questions very well. My client has infinite scrolling on his product pages but also have rel="prev" and rel="next" (but no actual physical page 1, page 2, page 3) buttons. I was just reading the rel="prev" and rel="next" should be in the in this case anyway. Does this mean we don't need actual buttons? I am confirming the date this was put on, as I can't see any reduction in pages indexed which is one of the concerns above. Regards Neil