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That shouldn't be a problem, but I would consider two important factors involved in this move: a) IP geolocalization (this experiment from Richard Baxter is very illustrative: https://builtvisible.com/ip-location-search-results/) and b) performance of the new CDN.

Another couple notes: URLs are ugly on their demo site at http://lesbonneschoses.prismic.me/blog/ Example post: http://lesbonneschoses.prismic.me/blog/UlfoxUnM0wkXYXbi/one-day-in-the-life-of-a-les-bonnes-choses-pastry (Post ID subfolder needs to go) Example category: http://lesbonneschoses.prismic.me/blog?category=Announcements (would prefer to see these parameters as subfolders like /blog/category/announcements/ and also keep them lower-cased.) Looks like the /UlfoxUnM0wkXYXbi/ subfolder can be removed - see "Link Resolver" on this page https://developers.prismic.io/documentation/developers-manual. Here's some of their notes on caching: https://developers.prismic.io/documentation/developers-manual#cache.

I'm confused a little If you are going to be using only one domain, you don't have to use hreflang whatsoever. If you do decide to kepp both, then you don't have to use hreflag or rewrite rules either, just do backlinks to whatever domains you need and that's it.

Thanks for your advice --- very very helpful -- greatly appreciated.

In that case you can eventually rely on IP detection, and if someone from Belgium is entering on your site, then you can fire an alert, somehow as Amazon does: "We detected that you are visiting us from Belgium, so we suggest you to visit the French version of our web site". This, though, does not solve the problem of Belgians speaking Flemish

Live sites will get badly damaged if such this happens. Consider the cases of Sports live score sites, Online chat frames, News feeds, etc. So mostly this won't damage the SEO factors.

You could always redirect the whole sub-directory of the community pages to what ever page you want using 301's. So after you've deleted the community section and someone were to go to any page with /community/ in it would redirect to your home page or any other page you wish. Means you wont get any 404 errors. Example if you wanted to redirect the /community/ pages to the root you would use the following code in your .htaccess file: RewriteRule ^community/(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,NC,L] Your'll need access to your .htaccess file and more instructions on how to do the 301's are here - http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/redirecting-a-web-folder-directory-to-another-in-htaccess/

I'd suggest Cognitive SEO for this.. I'm personally using it and quite satisfied with the results. Hope this helps! Umar

Is it a good move to pick 10 free blogging sites to build links No is the simple answer really. Google is targeting these types of link building practices so I would be looking to create amazing content and the performing your outreach from there. By Amazing content, I don't mean that you should write 500 words and how that will suffice - because for the most part, it won't. If you want to really succeed with link building, then you need to create content that takes you past what most others are doing. If you can create 10 articles in a couple of days, then you are't doing enough. Take your time - spend a number of days creating something that is fully researched, very in depth and answers many questions. You will have a really good chance of this being picked up by a number of reputable sources. -Andy

Hi Gianluca. Thanks so much for the detailed explanation! I appreciate your taking the time to provide all that great info. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what to do here. I understand the client made a mistake in launching one site for all of Europe, but I know they'll never pay to build out separate sites for each target country (at least not right now). At the risk of sounding like an annoying client, what if I was to use the "en-us" hreflang tag on the U.S. site and just "en" on the English version of the European site as a temporary fix? (Then once we launch the translated versions of the European site – in Spanish, French, and Italian – we'd tag them as "es," "fr," and "it.") Would that help at all with my issue of having the European site outrank the U.S. site in the U.S. SERPs? Thanks again for taking the time to try to steer me in the right direction. From your answers, I feel like I have a pretty good handle on what we should do in an ideal world. Unfortunately, this situation is not ideal, so I'm looking for a relatively quick band-aid fix... but I'm getting the sinking feeling that there's no such thing.

Yea I just started working on this site. I haven't used Moz Analytics much so just wanting to see how their crawler crawls pages. And yes I agree, there are a lot of BIG BIG BIG issues with this site. I got a large workload over the next few months haha.

Hey Trenton Do the pages in fact return a 404 code now? You can check with http://urivalet.com/ set to Googlebot. Are they indexed in Google? search for the URL and put 'site:' before it. If they 404 and are indexed, it will just take time for them to drop out. Google continues to crawl pages they had once discovered, but are not linked to anymore, and these will definitely show up in your crawl errors. Pages with crawl errors are actually a good thing if that's what you expect and intended which in this case, it was I know it stinks to have errors showing up in the report, when in fact they are not really errors you have to "fix", but just think of it more like a report, and some pages it's perfectly OK to have 404'ing.

How do I know if they are followed or nofollowed?  I really don't know much about the whole disavowing process except what I've read from the links through Moz.  I also haven't contacted the host company since they're the ones that put it there I am a little concerned with having them take it off but I guess it's worth a try?

Hey, Yes, it does. If you're getting a link on a particular page of yours, PA (Page Authority) of that page will definitely gonna increase and the other linked pages on a root domain level also get the benefit. This is how your overall Domain authority or PR build.. Hope this helps! Umar