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Should I be concerned about youtube transcripts with our brand name being used to populate junk blogs?  I just noticed this with freshweb this morning: http://www.sharehomevalue.com/blogs/11567.  There are about 4 pages of results like this... mostly Korean websites.

I'm not spotting it right away.  The problem is I would need to know what the plug-in is doing. . .and I'm not the best guy to ask those kinds of questions.  I haven't written in PHP/MySQL in about 8 years so I'm a bit out of it.

If you go to http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/qtranslate you should be able to post for help there.

I can diagnose where a search for the problem should begin, but not so much the specifics.  My guess is the issue is in the plug-in.

WordPress is designed to read constantly from a database and it's reading something that looks like %TITLE%.  Now I've never experimented with QTranslate, but my assumption is they are adding additional database entries for the various languages and then each post, in their respective language, is supposed to pull from it's own database.

It could be something as simple as a pointer to the database that is still using the Spanish version instead of making the switch the plugin is supposed to accomplish.

Again, QTranslate, who knows their own code, should be able to diagnose something like this very easy.  I'm sorry to hear they haven't so far.  Your solution is going to be either getting them to fix it or hiring someone who can edit PHP and MySQL (which usually go together anyway).

The company I do SEO work for is a vacation rental company.  Through research, reports, and crunching numbers I've discovered the seasonality of the buiness (when what we do is a popular search and when it is not).

The problem I've encountered is that our average position for google seems to follow this exact same seasonality, but only for us.  What I mean is, as the season for looking up vacation rentals in our area fades away we take a serious nose dive in our positioning, yet when the season comes back we once again are first page.  The other interesting fact is this isn't happening to the other companies who are in the same area.

How can the same key term change positioning seasonally like that and impact some companies and not others?  Can you give me some insights into where to at least look or pursue?  I should have started with you guys, but I had so far spent 4 months trying to get answers and so far I've come up with nothing more than guesses and frustration.  Please help me.

I can diagnose where a search for the problem should begin, but not so much the specifics.  My guess is the issue is in the plug-in.

WordPress is designed to read constantly from a database and it's reading something that looks like %TITLE%.  Now I've never experimented with QTranslate, but my assumption is they are adding additional database entries for the various languages and then each post, in their respective language, is supposed to pull from it's own database.

It could be something as simple as a pointer to the database that is still using the Spanish version instead of making the switch the plugin is supposed to accomplish.

Again, QTranslate, who knows their own code, should be able to diagnose something like this very easy.  I'm sorry to hear they haven't so far.  Your solution is going to be either getting them to fix it or hiring someone who can edit PHP and MySQL (which usually go together anyway).

I'm not spotting it right away.  The problem is I would need to know what the plug-in is doing. . .and I'm not the best guy to ask those kinds of questions.  I haven't written in PHP/MySQL in about 8 years so I'm a bit out of it.

If you go to http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/qtranslate you should be able to post for help there.