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First off awesome site, can you add more content to your homepage, although it is awesome it doesn't have a lot of text where you can sprinkle in trigger niche key phrases and locations. I agree text messes up a design sometimes but maybe adding an intro paragraph somewhere on the homepage might help.

Google's gone after multiple link networks across the world in the last few months. Search on seroundtable.com for all the details. Google will never get rid of all these sites and they won't go away on their own. These old school methods still work very well to rank.

That's the problem...it's often hard to tell whether a link is natural or not.  For example, a local directory listing might be ok, but it could be unnatural.  If it helps, I wrote a Moz article that describes different kinds of unnatural links: http://moz.com/ugc/what-is-an-unnatural-link-an-in-depth-look-at-the-google-quality-guidelines

Thanks alot, Samual. I will look into this. Thanks!

I did a quick research and both of these are offered as HP products. Are you sure it's the same product renamed? Also I notice that you have video tutorials. If it's just a name change and the interface and everything remains the same then I think you can keep the video tutorials and mention ALM in the text/title/meta description etc. If the interface, tools and options all have changed then it's better to create new set of pages and videos because the old pages wont provide any value to the new users.

Thank you

Many thanks Spencer !

Hi, While no single backlink checker on this planet would show you same amount of backlinks that a website has, the only better way is to consolidate data from different tools like, ahrefs, OSE, Google webmaster tools account etc. No single tool can give you comprehensive backlink data. Hope it helps my friend. Good Luck to you. Best regards, Devanur Rafi

What do you suggest then? instead of the 1-2 keywords per page approach?

Alright... I can't argue with that... time to put my writing cap on and get working on some good content. Thanks again for the honest feedback and keeping my away from these pitfalls.

Not being web developers on the help team, I'm hesitant diving into the code and tell you what's wrong here. Running some quick searches on Google though, it does look like there may be something wrong with the site setup. I'd really recommend reviewing the article I linked to above. It's a little old but the material is still relevant. Once everything is corrected, Roger still may not be able to read the content. The workaround presented above was to show a potential solution but it isn't a guaranteed fix since he does have issues understanding AJAX in general. http://www.moz.com/blog/create-crawlable-link-friendly-ajax-websites-using-pushstate I definitely understand how frustrating this can be and wish I could do more to help. Hopefully someone in the community will be able to dive in a bit more on the technical web dev side of things.

A couple more thoughts here, based on your revised question. You'll want to figure out how those links to the rogue subdomain have been generated, so you don't just move them over to the new CMS (such as if it's in body text that gets wholesale copied without being examined). If those old subdomains are not needed at all anymore, I'd get them removed entirely if you can, or at the very least blocked in robots.txt. You can verify each subdomain as its own site in Google Webmaster Tools, then request removal of those subdomains if the content is gone or if it's excluded in robots.txt. You might suggest to the dev team that they password-protect things like this so they don't get accidentally crawled in the future, use robots.txt to block, etc. If you have known dev subdomains that are needed, and you know about them as the SEO and make sure they have robots.txt on them, you might want to use a code monitoring service like https://www.polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/ to monitor the contents of the robots.txt file. It will let you know if the file has been changed or removed (good idea for the main site too). I've seen dev sites copied over to live sites, and the robots.txt copied over too, so everything is now blocked on the new live site. I've also seen dev sites with a data refresh from the live site, and the robots.txt from the live site is now on the dev site, and the dev site gets indexed.

Thanks everyone for your responses!

Thanks for the input! We are probably going to just run 2 different sites rather than the redirect because it probably makes more sense as we get different kinds of clients from each sub-domain.  But, we wanted to know should we ever have to or need to redirect in the future. Thank you again!

Good advice.  Thanks

Moz shows many of my other clients with local keywords like that. I see vonderhaar in the map listings but not organic results