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Hello SEOmoz,

I have a very well respected international client who ranks high in the US and for English language Google search results worldwide.  However, the client's foreign language pages for specific countries do not show up on the first page of SERPs in those specific countries.

The foreign nation/language pages are served on the same root domain as the main English language site it this fashion:

www.client.com/france

www.client.com/brazil

Here are my questions:

1. What can we do from an SEO standpoint to improve SERPs in Google.fr or other countries

2. What is the best way to prevent duplicate content errors or prevent the wrong page from being indexed abroad.

3. What are some best practices when using Google Webmaster tools in this regard?

Thanks

Hello,

I recently did an SEOMoz crawl for a client site.  As it typical, the most common errors were duplicate page title and duplicate content.  The client site is a custom social network for researchers.  Most of the pages that showing as duplicate are simple variations of each user's profile such as comment sections, friends pages, and events.

So my question is how can we limit duplicate content errors for a complex site like this.  I already know about the rel canonical tag, and rel next tag, but I'm not sure if either of these will do the job.  Also, I don't want to lose potential links/link juice for good pages.

Are there ways of using the "noindex" tag in batches? For instance: noindex all urls containing this character?  Or do most CMS allow this to be done systematically?

Anyone with experience doing SEO for a custom Social Network or Forum, please advise.

Thanks!!!

@irvingw can you elaborate on "standard on page optimization"?  I familar with best practices for keywords, page titles, meta descriptions, and images, but not for videos.

Thanks

The videos are hosted on the site.  I'm talking about tagging the video titles.  Also, if you know anything about snippets, that would be great.

Can anyone recommend a good tutorial for tagging video content?  We need to optimize the video HTML code to improve search results.

thanks.

Thanks Ryan, that's what I thought.

Quick question: if you using a parantheses around a keyword, do search bots still recognize the keyword?  Fox ex:

Welcome to a website about the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Will the bots recognize that I'm trying to optimize to NBA and not (NBA)?  Is this different for tags vs. actual body copy?

Quick question: if you using a parantheses around a keyword, do search bots still recognize the keyword?  Fox ex:

Welcome to a website about the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Will the bots recognize that I'm trying to optimize to NBA and not (NBA)?  Is this different for tags vs. actual body copy?

Thanks Ryan, that's what I thought.