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Did any of this get cleared up when your impressions started showing for your UK account by some wild magic chance, or is this still an issue?

Jane, have you been able to get this straightened out at all? Did you try removing the name in all caps? There are often questions that come through regarding Google Places, so it's helpful to see what did and did not work for other people.

I'm not sure if this meets your needs, but it is something to look at if you haven't seen it already.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-sitemaps-for-videos/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/flv-embed/

What is your geography? North Dakota versus Los Angeles also makes a difference with this question.

Can you give us a rough range of your monthly spend? That can also help with recommendations. Some providers have a minimum monthly spend before they'll even talk to you.

What time frame are you looking at? Month over month? Year over year? Are there seasonal trends that may account for the change? The changes in domain using the redirect can have temporary drops in traffic as well.

In your analytics, look at various segments. What does the traffic look like from your target countries? How is traffic from each specific search engine? Is it search traffic that has declined? Or direct traffic? Or referral traffic? Or all of the above equally?

Is there anything of interest in Google Webmaster Tools?

I would still look at your image size while you waited -- getting the load time down can only help things.

Anna, were you able to figure this out? If not, we're happy to help if you can give us some more details, examples, or a URL.

It's not a diagram, but this post is a good introduction to how to start building links.

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links

I don't have figures or the first-hand experiences, but because there haven't been any others chiming in, I wanted to offer links to recent conference coverage about ratings and reviews. The session did talk about the reviews and stars in Google. If you contacted the speakers, they might be able to give you some more information.

SMX West 2011 session coverage by Lisa Barone:

http://outspokenmedia.com/internet-marketing-conferences/ratings-reviews/

Rhea Drysdale's presentation at that session, including some ranking factors.

http://www.slideshare.net/rdrysdale/smx-west-2011-ratings-reviews-reputation-their-growing-impact-on-search

Following up here -- did this answer Dave's question?

It's looking like others may be copying the first paragraph or two of your content, then linking back to you. diamondweddingringsets. org/jewelry/wedding-jewelry-shopping-in-houston is one example, and most of the duplicate content I've seen has been on that domain.

Did the .htaccess information answer your question, or do you still need some more help? I don't know your domain, so it's hard to know if you were able to get it implemented. =]

I have no experience with Majestic SEO, but I believe it has some of this capability.

Thanks for the report back. It's always helpful to have data points about how long it takes for this type of thing to come through.

I wouldn't want 300 casino and body part enhancement blogs linking to my site, but in general it's not a problem. Jen Lopez has mentioned my business (RC model warship combat boats) with a link in coverage on the SEOmoz blog in relation to a wrap-up post on an SES we both attended. I'm not going to turn down that link. A lot of the top links to our business in OSE are from SEO sites, as I usually liveblog a couple of conferences a year.

Would I intentionally go out and try to build links from someone with a blog about fruit tree care as opposed to spending the same time and effort building links from a blog about WWII model ship plans? No, not at all.

Have your rich snippets displayed yet, and/or have you gotten a response in the Google Webmaster Forums about this?

I can't see why there would be a penalty, but if you give us an example of the code or plugin/solution you're using, we can research it a little and see if there are any problems.

A month later, I did a search for nybox on Google, and I'm seeing the sitelinks in English. Did you figure out what caused the Chinese and did you do something to fix it, or did it just happen to fix iteself?

Go ahead and link to the post -- seems quite appropriate and on-topic.