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If the aged domain has links going deeper than the homepage you should look at redirecting those pages/directories directly to their associated pages/directories on the new site.  Otherwise all passed link equity will go to the homepage.

Hi Luke, As the guys above replied with, sounds like an a href with a phone number If you check the 'inlinks' (via the lower window tab), you'll be able to see the source of these errors (the pages they are located). Obviously you can then view the source code & find the exact link, and what might be the issue. Hope that helps! Feel free to pop through any further questions directly to our support btw (http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/support/), I only spotted this via a Google alert. (We try and reply super quick & will always look into any problems!) Cheers. Dan

I think its clear that the best option is a subpage.

Couldn't agree more with you Ryan! This guy knows his stuff!

I see. In that case, sure, any short folder would be fine.  Maybe even 'a' as it reads a little nice: website.com/a/us-en/store/product-name.html.  Reads like, "Website, a US, English language store with the product named X."  Someone seeing the link would have a pretty good idea of what it is going to be.

Hav you crawled your redesigned site with a tool like Xenu or ScreamingFrog?  That will help ferret out any bad links / 404 pages. Also, did you submit an updated sitemap with the redesign? Use 301s? Etc. Edit: Looks like Dirk above hit on the most likely issue regarding 301s. You should be set with that.

The best way to go about this is to keep the URLs with the language in the structure. Redirect (301) the ones that don't have it to the ones that do. However, it sounds like that causes a problem. If the above isn't a possibility, use a canonical from the non-language URL to the one with it. Then do your HREFLANG in sitemaps, and only use the URLs with the language tag in the sitemaps. You can also do the coding on the page, just make sure the HREFLANG tags are not on the non-language pages. Example URL: http://www.test.com/boeken would have a canonical tag that points to http://www.test.com/nl/boeken Only http://www.test.com/nl/boeken is listed in the sitemaps OR Only http://www.test.com/nl/boeken has HREFLANG tags. http://www.test.com/boeken would only have the canonical. That should solve your problem.

Yes, that's a lot of redirects. However, I wouldn't advise removing them just because Google has updated their index. You may still have a lot of backlinks pointing to the old URLs. If you remove the redirects, they'll be broken links. Is it possible to use wildcards to cut down on the number of redirects?

I like the direction we're heading to --> Search Experience Optimization!

The only tool that I have a personal experience with, is ProspectFinder from Enecto, Sweden. You can check it out here: http://www.enecto.com/products/prospectfinder/ It compares IP adresses with local business information, and they can integrate it with your CRM (SugarCRM, SalesForce etc.). You can get an automated email with a new list of prospects each week and a bunch of other stuff.

Just focus on creating shareable content and getting links from authority sites in your niche.

Here is two more excellent piece that ties and a lot of the most essential things. http://www.sytian-productions.com/blog/web-design/the-ultimate-seo-guide-for-website-redesign/ Great tool for site inventory and redistribution. http://urlprofiler.com/ All the best, Tom

Ryan's resources look good regarding copyright & fair usage. If you're citing a paragraph or two and linking to the source, you're generally in the clear. In terms of SEO, you'll want to be adding as much unique content to the page as you're citing if you plan on indexing the content. Here are examples of sites that do this curation approach well: http://swipefile.co/archives/ http://further.net/archives/ If you're just going to pull the content in directly from an RSS feed, or if you're just adding a sentence plus the quoted text and a link, then you're probably not adding enough value for the content to be worth indexing. I'd set the meta robots tag to "noindex, follow" in this case.

Hi, thank you. I probably should have specified my question was focused on Organic, not Local.  I think he's doing fine on local, given that his office is in Pasadena. I agree with you 100%.  He needs more reviews for his listing.  Most of his reviews have gone to Avvo, as real criminal defense clients don't want to leave non-anonymous reviews. Thanks again for the excellent feedback.  I appreciate it.

If most of your pictures are the same type of container, you could use a tool like import.io to grab the information from each page. This will miss items in the template and has to be trained just a bit but I think it could work for what you need.