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I just read today in that article: http://searchengineland.com/lessons-learned-at-smx-west-googles-farmerpanda-update-white-hat-cloaking-and-link-building-67838:

International Roll Out

Matt confirmed that the algorithm change is still U S. only at this point, but is being tested internationally and would be rolling out to additional countries “within weeks”. He said that the type of low quality content targeted by the changes are more prevalent in the United States than in other countries, so the impact won’t be as strong outside the U.S.

Seems to be a bug - I just sent them a report

Hi Gianni,

of course the huge image won't make the website disappear from the serps - if you define "disappear" that the website is banned from the index.

I suppose you know that speed / loading time already matters, but it is just one of many ranking factors and Matt Cutts said that very rare pages are concerned. But imagine that there is a website with exactely the same condition as yours then the one with less loading time will be "better" than yours.

Even though the image is in the css defined it is not the best idea. Did you really compress the image yet?

Off topic - this doesn't apply

Lol - that's a different approach ...

Hi Jonathan,

the same content in different languages is no duplicate content.

If you want to dip deeper into the language / country problem I suggest you the following WBF Rand recently showed us: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international-seo-where-to-host-and-how-to-target-whiteboard-friday

I added some suggestions here, too:
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/international-seo-part-2

Hi Kaashif - thank you for sharing your "secret".

Hi there, there are several factors important:

The most important ones are:

• the keyword must be in the name of the images (e.g. you have several images named with numbers img9325430644.jpeg --> nobody is searching for "img9325430644"
• the keyword(s) must be in the surrounded area of the image(s)
• the size of the image (bad if they are too small or too large)
• the keyword should be in the alt text and in the title of the page (the title attribute has no impact on seo)
• the keyword relevancy of the whole page
• the age of the image (the older - the better)
• the originality (the more unique the image is the better)
• the better the page where the image is on is linked - the faster the image gets indexed
• if the image is used several times the images seems to be more  important to Google and the chance of its indexation increases
• image xml sitemap

I hope I didn't forget some items - but those are certainly the most important ones.

Here is a statement of Aaron Wall Bing versus Google:

http://www.seobook.com/google-vs-bing (I suppose Bing and Yahoo are quiet the same).

Hope this helps.

Hi Jacob,

it's a good ideal to put the plural and singular version in the title and won't hurt your website. Like that you cover both versions and it can be indeed a difference in the search results if you write the word in singular or in plural version.

You always have to take care that it don't look to spamy not to scare off the users but your title looks fine to me.

Here in the learning session you find more information about the "amount" of link juice:

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

A 301 Redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link juice (ranking power) to the redirected page.

I think your stragety is a perfect one if you put the video a) to your website and b) to video hosting pages.
Like that you get the most profit.Just try to set up a complete profile on each video platform and enter all the datas you can put in there to attract as many viewers as you can.

Regarding video sitemaps which has been submitted to the Google webmaster tools - we have many positive results showing up in the vertical results of the serps and even on the main stream.

No they don't.

Every redirect is passing link juice but as I wrote not 100% - only 90-99% - so you have a loss each time.

Here a link you should take a look at: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-interview-googles-matt-cutts-on-redirects-trust-more - "It's a bad idea to chain redirects".

Regarding your strategy - I am not able to pass an adaquat advice because I don't know your technical possibilities.

A 301 Redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link juice to the redirected page. So this means you loose a lot of link juice. Apart from that that redirects from A to B to C are not the best practise and are not recommended.

In your case you should use a 301 redirect

Great post to read here to understand the usage: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/301-redirect-or-relcanonical-which-one-should-you-use

To your first question:
www.example.com/index.html --> use a 301 redirect to www.example.com

Regarding rel canonical --> there the usage is explained pretty well:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

You add the tag to specify your preferred version inside the section of the duplicate content URLs.

The title looks a little overdone and cluttered to me. If the Ranch name has the word "Ranch" in, you have that three times in your title.
There will be certainly better solutions. Furthermore there are no separators in it - in my opinion this makes it hard to read, too.
You have the country, town, brand and activity in there - perhaps you can match e.g. to put one topic better on different pages so you clear your title.

We had a similar question over here too: http://www.seomoz.org/q/page-title-tags-seo-vs-cro- perhaps you find some answers there, too.

Hi Tobias,

yes they are in use and useful, too

Here is the link to the webinar Jenny mentioned http://www.seomoz.org/dp/pro-webinar-jan-2011-value-from-xml-sitemaps

Hi James,
A) you are talking about a 301 redirect (not 201 I suppose) --> you have to do that definitively!
B) I seems to me kind of spammy if the company name is added a 2nd time and additionally the shorter the url the more the people can remind it. I see no advantage of having it twice in the url.