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If it is an exact copy of your article then it is possible that it could cause a problem with Google. If you decide to contact them find out in advance if they are a real Benjamin Moore company.  If they are then your chances of success are greater, in my opinion.  If they are not I think it would be hard to get cooperation. Decide what you want to accomplish.  Do you want it removed, do you want a link, do you want an rel=canonical? I would want the rel=canonical AND have my company name listed as the author and copyright holder in the article. I would offer them a choice.... A) remove the article..... B) display it with attribution and rel=canonical (and give instructions for how that should be done) If they choose B then their web dev could get in touch if there are questions about how to do what you want.

Hi John, I'm not sure that's the best decision, honestly. Before you do that, I would advise you to hire a heavy hitting local SEO to help you with this. BTW, the screenshot you are showing me (I'm not sure which page that is) is not the one I would expect to see. Read this thread and look at the 4th post on it: http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-local-important/1580-hooray-new-business-moved-feature-google-local.html I am still not sure how the pending status is actually affecting you, John, as your listing is clearly live. I had asked about this, but don't believe you responded. I had also asked what the history of your communication with Google was about this, but did not see a reply on this from you. My advice is that you hire someone to dig fully into this beyond what I can do here in Q&A and figure out what the best steps will be for you. You mentioned David Mihm at the start of this thread, but David is no longer doing client work as of GetListed being acquired by SEOmoz. I would recommend any of these providers: Mike Blumenthal, http://www.blumenthals.com/blog Andrew Shotland, http://www.localseoguide.com Mary Bowling, http://www.marybowling.com/ Matthew Hunt, http://www.smallbusinessonlinecoach.com/ I'd offer my own services but I am so busy right now, John, and troubleshooting complicated problems like this isn't really my area of client work. However, I do believe you would benefit from paying for an hour or two of consulting time from one of these folks BEFORE you make such a big decision. You need to present the whole history of your case and get personalized guidance. Hope my suggestion may save you from some headaches.

I tried the adding content approach no luck. I have a google adwords rep helping with the issue..but so far not much luck.

John, Don't worry about google, write the story for your readers. Target it to their needs, rewrite, paraphrase, add extra information for one group and different information for another group. I'm not suggesting you only change a few words. I mean to really target the article for each group. If you want to see how much google cares about duplicate content, try this search on google: Romney wins Ohio, 4 other Super Tuesday states Check those results and tell me that google cares about duplicate content. If google really cared about having only one original story, none of those sites would get any search traffic. You can see this for every single AP story, all day every day - those sites are paying a lot of money for AP content. If google was penalizing them for always having duplicate content, they would never show up in search results.

Scott, thanks for the feed back, good points. I will check out your blog.

Did you tried at http://codecanyon.net/. There you will found tousands of good codes with several types of sliders. I hope it can help you...

Phil..great feedback about buttons and comment form. Will make changes thanks.

Thanks Ryan.

Hey Will, Very cool to see you dropping by on the Q&A Sha

Ryan, thx for the considered response

tried using both options for imgur for picture....they dont work...here is subject URL http://www.golffellowship.org/paakoridge.html

Hi John, I've been looking into this myself and the option that I think we're going to go with is this: http://www.scriptiny.com/2011/01/javascript-slider/ Not sure whether it can handle video but it's a lovely script for images because it's a tiny js file, it gracefully degrades for users without javascript and it's very pretty! Hope that helps!

Not to be overly obvious, but part of the answer to this question is that Google is using the metrics included in the XML feed (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=80472#4) Things like, video:title, video:description, video:tag, video:category, etc. In addition Google is combining those with the authority and content of your website.  Since your website is an authority on painting vs youtube (videos on anything and everything), there's likely an associated benefit to sending a user to website where they can find a collection of painting related material, not just videos.  That's a benefit to the user. The benefit to you is that you're receiving qualified web traffic that has an interest in painting and has a better chance of becoming a customer in the future.  You may receive the same benefit from a user going to youtube and then being interested in your services, but they will certainly be another step away from that, either figuring out how to contact you via youtube or leaving youtube, going to your site, and then contacting you. For visitors outside of your area you could offer a starter kit or educational material for the DIY crowd.  If they like your style of organization and view you as an authority on how to make painting projects a success they could conceivably become customers of that sort of material. Your link from your home page to your video uses the text, "Recycle Paint" which further contributes towards ranking for that term, and the text around your link lines up semantically: take away, old paint.  All the things Google would expect to see are present in your content and links. Basically, everything is organized and categorized very well on a website that is clearly an authority in regards to painting so it makes sense to be a beneficial ranking for both users and yourself. Well done!

I'm not sure I understand your question John, and the second URL is a 404. Could you expand your question a bit? Thanks!