Vadim -

There was a thread yesterday about Wistia vs. You Tube here: http://moz.com/community/q/wbf-videos-and-transcripts

… and they linked to this page about how video with Wistia vs. YouTube affects SEO: http://wistia.com/learning/advanced-seo-with-distilled

That said, you're correct that there's nothing stopping someone from using a video capture system to grab the images.

Perhaps a watermark on the video could help prevent this temptation?

I'm not a huge Vimeo expert, but I know that Wistia is what Moz uses...

Neenor-

Google does quite a bit of work to keep pages that show "explicit" content from appearing, unless the end user is searching for adult content.  Lingerie images walk a fine line between safe content and one that won't show up during a normal search.  Based on what you've written, sounds like their site is more on the risque side of things...

The best way to see if your clients' site is affected is to turn Safe Search ON, and then see if their site will appear in search results.

Safe Search, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeSearch), is a feature that acts as an automated filter of pornography and potentially offensive content.

In a statement given to The Verge, a Google spokesperson said:

"We are not censoring any adult content, and want to show users exactly what they are looking for -- but we aim not to show sexually-explicit results unless a user is specifically searching for them. We use algorithms to select the most relevant results for a given query. If you're looking for adult content, you can find it without having to change the default setting -- you just may need to be more explicit in your query if your search terms are potentially ambiguous. The image search settings now work the same way as in web search."

Andie -

We work on a lot of eCommerce sites with similar left-hand navigation filters.

I think that the thing to keep in mind is that these pages are often like search results pages, and require a human to choose options to create those URLs.  As a result, they shouldn't be pages that a typical crawl bot would find.

That said, each eCommerce system acts differently, and it's possible that permanent links are created that are added to a site map. Or, it's possible that Google's bots are starting to check boxes on eCommerce filters to better mimic human behavior.  After all, Google has created self-driving cars.

The data driven approach: I would check to see if any of these pages are showing up in Google Webmaster tools to see if it is, indeed, an issue, before trying to go crazy about duplicate content.

Hope this helps,
-- Jeff

Jeff-

The slider is certainly a bit nicer from a design perspective, but the client does have quite a few images that have been indexed by Google images (see screenshot below).

That said, I ran both pages through a spider simulator, and the non-slider (thumbnails) does index / link to an image in each case.

The slider version shows the image name as plain text, but doesn't recognize the images as links.  So the slider, in my opinion, isn't as helpful for SEO as the thumbnail version.  It might be a more engaging consumer experience though.

One option: on the slider, allow someone to click on the image to view on a larger scale.  That link would likely display...

Hope this helps...

• Jeff

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Ryan -

There are a lot of different ways to fix this, but I think that my first, initial suggestion would be to take control over the Google + pages for both locations, so that you can verify these addresses, and fill them out with more information.

For LTI Inc, the Google + page seems to say, "Is this your business?"  (See screenshots.)

This is where I'd start.  Once these pages are verified, it will be a lot easier to tie everything everything together.

I hope this helps!

-- Jeff

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If there are just two locations, I'd probably list them both on the footer, and indicate if one is the headquarters.

That said, I would probably also designate the main location using RDFa / microtagging technology, so that's machine readable.

Here's how we use this on our site:

Customer Paradigm

5353 Manhattan Circle

Suite 103

Boulder CO, 80303

303.473.4400
888.772.0777

Hope this helps!
-- Jeff