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Awesome! Thanks so much

Thank you Mick.

Hey All! Whitespark just posted something quite awesome along these lines: http://www.whitespark.ca/top-local-citation-sources-by-country It's a don't-miss list:)

Cut the rope and run! To build links you need high authority (mixed with some lower authority), highly relevant in context sites that suit your niche.  Imagine how many thousands of niches there out there, now imagine that company has such a complex portfolio of opportunities it can cater for anyone who buys a 'package'.  It's not going to happen!  That would be like the holy grail. You would be far better spending on time $200 for 1 single powerful link than spend $xxx + for the privilege of getting penalized. You'd be better off investing time in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkLFlaWxgJA http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links http://moz.com/blog/category/link-building

IT IS NEVER SAFE!!!! GOOGLE WILL HUNT YOU LIKE A DOG HUNTING ANOTHER DOG HUNTING A SQUIRREL! I am so funny. If the pages that link to other pages are related, in the "OMG Bro, I can't believe just how topically related these pages are!", kind of way... then I'm sure you'll be alright. Edited bit: If everything is under the same IP under the same registrant, than I'm somewhat sure the links will be discounted for the purpose of link juice/page rank. However, if you're funneling people to the good stuff, who cares? The sites might not rank any higher, but if the sites are good in the first place, you may increase revenue across sites. Or you may decrease revenues. You kind of have to experiment with that sort of thing.

You want those old spam pages to have a 410 code - gone (permanently). I'm not 100% sure how you will achieve this though... I'd speak to your hosting company and/or web developer. 404 code means the page is 'not found' which isn't the same as 410, which tells the search engines that the page has gone forever, so they won't keep looking for it. Hope this helps! Amelia

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You do not need to use any special code like that, all you need to do is make sure that the basic Google Analytics code is located on all pages on your site.  The one thing I do recommend doing is updating to use Google's newest tracking code, which should look like this:

Thanks for your help Travis, that was a really solid answer.

It looks like there's something going on oddly with your redirects. I'd be double checking that those redirects are indeed 301s so they're picking up the current meta description (along with the rest of the info!). While on the user end, it looks great, the bots are getting different signals. I also noticed that I was able to get this page: http://www.efurniturehouse.com/full-over-full-bunk-beds/ Which your current page is at http://www.efurniturehouse.com/full-over-full-bunk-beds-1/

Thanks.  That's the information I was looking for. In our particular vertical, there are several "organizations" who try to claim the directory listings/citations.  Some of them have gone the route of Yext and taken our listings/citations from us, thus prompting the question as the client properties in question are using the Moz Local service and losing citations due to Yext via a 3rd party.

I think Google updated the 14 days processing. You add a manager -> One day waiting -> Make owner. Thanks so much for your help!!!

Do they have authority? If not, feel free to 404 or 301 redirect to new homepage. If yes, that might affect ranking of the sites that they currently link to.