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Hi,

I work for a site that focuses on providing health information through videos. We would like to add French subtitles (because we're in Canada) so I'm looking into software that would allow us to add them to our videos.

I have no experience with this sort of thing, so I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on the best type of software to use?

Thanks!

E

Hi,

We are translating our articles into French (they are already in English) and are considering Cantonese & Mandarin. How does Google see this? Say I post an article on Diabetes Symptoms in English, Cantonese and French. Same article, different languages. Does Google look at this as three separate articles, ranking you uniquely, or does it count as one article?

Thanks,

Erin

Wow! What a nice gesture. I would love to discuss a couple of things with you, mainly around our content. Should I just message you through here or do you have an email I should use?

Thank you! It's great to meet someone in the same sphere...

Hi,

I write content for the site http://www.healthchoices.ca. We were hit by Panda (a different issue that is resolved now) but even before that, I'd write an entire library of good content. An example: the plant sterols library. Here's an article as an example:

http://www.healthchoices.ca/article/where-are-plant-sterols-phytosterols-found

There are about eight on average in each medical library, and we cover topics from acne to sexual health.

The other half of the business is a directory. We have thousands of local health are providers, a basic version with just an address, and a longer version where we optimize the text. Here's an example:

http://www.healthchoices.ca/profile/ct-mri-scans/canada-diagnostic-centres

We come up buried on the third page, far after directories with zero content or crappy content.

What am I missing? I am getting very frustrated as I've been writing this stuff for a long time and nothing seems to come of it.

Thanks so much,

Erin

Thanks! All good answers. We have started by taking the complementary videos off the article pages to see if it is diluting our results. We're a small team so things take time but this is a good start.

Hi, I realize this is a very broad question, but I am going to ask it anyways in the hopes that someone might have some insight.

I have created a great deal of unique content for the site http://www.healthchoices.ca. You can select a video category from the top dropdown, then click on a video beside the provider box to see.

The articles I've written are accessible by the View Article tab under each video. I have worked hard to make the articles informative and they are all unique with quotes from expert physicians. Even for strange health conditions that don't have a lot of competition - I don't see us appearing. Our search results are quite dismal for the amount of content we have.

I guess I'm checking to see if anyone is able to point me in the right direction at all? If anything jumps out...

Thanks,

Erin

Thanks for your responses. Hmm...I'm not sure how to do a screen shot as the only way I could see the errors was to download the file. I've pasted a few below straight from the doc

<colgroup><col width="775"><col width="968"></colgroup>
| www.healthchoices.ca/video/ice-sports/default | www.healthchoices.ca/video/ice-sports/default |
| www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/Key-Man-Insurance | www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/Key-Man-Insurance |
| www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/Long-Term-Care-Coverage | www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/Long-Term-Care-Coverage |
| www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/Term-Life-Insurance | www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/Term-Life-Insurance |
| www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/default | www.healthchoices.ca/video/insurance-and-disability-planning/default |

Hi everyone,

I love the duplicate content feature; we have a lot of duplicate content issues due to the way our site is structured. So, we're working on them. However, I'm not fully understanding the results. For example, say I have an article on breast cancer symptoms. It shows up as duplicate content, by having two urls that point to the exact same page. http://www.healthchoices.ca/articles/breast cancer symptoms and http://www.healthchoices.ca/somerandomstringofcode. I fully understand why that is duplicate content.

I am not sure about this though, it picks up the same url twice and calls it duplicate content. For example, saying that http://www.healthchoices.ca/dr.-so-and-so and http://www.healthchoices.ca/dr.-so-and-so is duplicate...however is this not the same page? Is there something I'm missing? Many of the URL's are identical.

Thanks,

Erin