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Thank you Oleg. This partilly solves the problem. Google will still show English title and the click-through rate from the SERPs will be relatively much lower. I guess the only way to solve this is to remove the hreflang tags, but I have some concerns.

Thank you both for your responses and my apologies that I haven't been able to respond sooner. I will start by looking into it a bit more before making any significant changes however maybe 2015 is a nice year for a complete site redesign. Thank you for you thoughts. Regards Jarno

Hi James, Sorry for the delay in the answer. The canonical was applied previously first time I did the crawling and now it is done once a week. I will review this week crawl and let you know if it keeps appearing. It should remain the same as I did not make changes. Regards,

I would agree with Pixel by Pixel, DA is all about links, but its not the quantity you need to worry about, its the relevancy of the links. Also you don't want to get links, you need to earn links - then you don't need to worry about penalties from Google and other search engines. To earn links there is plenty of great articles on Moz about improving your DA but I would start from this one http://moz.com/learn/seo/page-authority Thanks Andy

I think either of those would be better. If you do the change make sure you do your 301s correctly.

Hey There! Paramaya has given such a great answer (including that very important link to Phil Rozek's work on directories that support hidden addresses) that I have only a couple of things to add here: This is not an uncommon situation, with home-based businesses. Owners' privacy concerns are legitimate. While it is believed that the lack of a street address will have some negative impact on Local Pack rankings, the degree of negativity is speculative and is industry-dependent in some ways. I would like to see a side-by-side study done on this, but am unaware of one. There is likely some negative impact, but the amount is not set in stone. Be sure that the client understands that he can have a Google+ Local page with a hidden address. There is nothing to prevent him from gaining inclusion in Google's local product. In your client's industry, if everyone is abiding by Google's guidelines for SABs (see: https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en), the only competitors who will have an edge on him in Google's product will be those who have a staffed, physical office. This is the only type of scenario in which Google states the address of an SAB should be displayed. It's important to be aware of this, because if every other plumber in your client's city is working from home, then their addresses shouldn't be displayed either, leveling the playing field. Where the playing field becomes less level is actually outside of Google's local product. There is some thought that any competitor who displays his address on his website and on his other citations may have an edge on a business that doesn't do this. So, this is where your client may fall behind competitors who do not mind having their home address published on the website and their non-Google citations. This then trickles back toward Google, as Google will find less instances of the address contained in your client's dashboard (and hidden to the public) to match up with references around the web. This decrease in NAP prominence could speculatively lead to a decrease in 'confidence' on Google's part that could, to some degree, decrease rankings. Once you've educated the client about all of the above, he can make an informed choice. He may change his mind and decide to display his address on his website and non-Google citations, in which case, he has every chance of leading the pack with the right marketing efforts. Or, if he remains resolved to keep his address hidden, he should get a Google+ Local page, hide the address, build citations on only those directories that support hidden addresses and then will have to get as far as he can ranking-wise with making the most superior effort he is capable of in terms of building his website authority, content, social presence, earning links, reviews, etc.

There is no limit to 301 redirects and in my opinion it makes your site much more crawl friendly for the search engines. Here is Matt Cutts of Google on the subject - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1lVPrYoBkA

This post last year gives a good answer throughout.  In summary yes it does but the edge gets taken off the link 'power', just as a 301 doesn't pass 100% http://moz.com/community/q/noindex-follow-is-a-waste-of-link-juice

Delete the pages and if they are still showing up in Google's index 301 redirect them to home.

Glad you got it sorted out. If you're 301-redirecting a lot of domains, I'd suggest doing it gradually or maybe holding off on the lowest-quality domains. Google can see a massive set of redirects as a bit of a red flag (too many people have bought up cheap domains and 301-redirected to consolidate the link equity). If the domains are really all closely related or if you're only talking about a handful (<5) then it's probably not a big issue.

Hi guys, Thank you very much for your time and your help, I've found a lot of example of "SEO products" in the Moz's listing. Regards, Jonathan

Hi Ron, As I mentioned above, one business will be closing down soon and in the meantime I am just trying to minimize problems like this. That is why I have hesitated to set up a full set of directory listings for the new business until the other is ready to fully step down and out of the picture. But maybe it is time to revisit that idea. And thanks for the information about the USPS database... I never even considered this before.

Update all internal links to point to the new URLs.  301 redirects don't pass 100% of the link juice. The best option is to create a 301 redirect rule(s) that handle all possible situations.  If that's not practical, then just worry about the ones that are linked to by external websites.  You can spot these by making the transition to the new URLs, then watching for 404 errors in Webmaster Tools, and looking for pages linked to by external sites. If you're using IIS, you can actually do some pretty complex logic in your 404 handler and make it return a 301 in certain cases.  Check this post I did a while back.

Hi Kadence, Sorry about the mix up on this one, with the Free Mozscape API - linking c-blocks are actually unavailable. We did have a miscommunication on our API documentation which has since been updated. Again sorry for the mix up on this one! Linking C-blocks are available on the Low Volume plan and up. Happy Holidays!