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What i know is you need to get quality backlinks to your page to increase your page authority. Don't go for large numbers of low quality backlinks but try to get as much as quality backlinks from high authority websites. Websites and pages that has more authority and trust will surely improve your DA and PA if you can link back from them.

Ryan has offered some great ideas.  Lots of those are not normally considered until after the problems hit. As a general rule, if you merge multiple websites, you unite their strengths and assets.  This is done by placing a 301 redirect on each of the existing domains so that any traffic that enters the site will be redirected to a destination on the combined site. If you have a main website like LakesidePrimaryCare.com, then each physician would have a personal profile page on that site.  I would redirect each of their former sites to their personal page on the combined site.   If you do that, their personal page will receive the strength from their previous site and help their personal page rank for queries like... "Dr Egol in scranton PA".   (Some benefit would also go into the entire site for any query that they are optimized to rank for.) If all of the redirects go to the homepage of the site it will give maximum power for the new site rank for "doctors in Scranton PA".  Which might be more beneficial for all but might be less satisfying individually.  (I would want this if I was one of the physicians, but I tend to be a team player rather than looking for maximum individual benefits.)  I believe that this option gives maximum benefit to everyone. In my opinion, and others will disagree, the old domains must remain on hosting with DNS pointing at them permanently and that 301 redirect must be in place permanently.   This can be done without paying hosting for all of the domains, if you have a server where multiple domains can be routed.  If this is not done any link popularity will be lost.

Questions This type of behavior is considered a temporary redirect. Maybe it's better to think of the name as a conditional redirect. In which case, "Oh, your browser is in FR, with that condition let's send you here..."  The 301 is supposed to be used as an unconditional redirect, telling crawlers that you're trying to migrate from URL A to B permanently, so get rid of URL A. Not necessarily. VS a 301, yes. but scrapability is mostly down to linking and sitemaps. Yup. Nope. You'd want to interlink directly to the other languages anyways though in case the 302 doesn't work for whatever reasons. Then the link is passing authority and the user has an option available to them if they'd like to get there on their own. Right. It'd be best to interlink with hreflang on each as you never know for certain how someone arrives at those pages.  Best to give them and crawlers the guidance to where the other translations reside. You're welcome! Hopefully that clears it all up for you.

Thanks Don. The links are external. We do have a general 404 page, but for whatever reason, when he built this site, the developer guided those specific 404s to that news page. Thanks again.

Anytime!

Excellent! Glad Monica and I could point you in the right direction. It sounds like you have the pieces in place to make the most of it.

Hi Neil, My personal favorite would be ScreamingFrog SEO Spider as recommended by Donna. Its highly recommended to go in for a yearly subscription and it worth every penny. It gives you a wealth of information that can be handy for a quick SEO audit. Used to use Gsite crawler earlier about till 3 years back but have been using ScreamingFrog SEO Spider and it has never let me down. You have a ton of options like being able to select User agents, regex for including or excluding certain sections or to crawl only certain sections of your website, list mode for finding HTTP header status codes for thousands of URLs along with many other options in no time. I use it daily. Best regards, Devanur Rafi

Thanks Ryan!  It sounds like we'll have to go the manual route for cover and profile photos, but we'll also def plan to upload other images via bulk upload as well.

Thank you! It was helpful..

Looks like a lot of good information from folks here so I'll be brief. Technically, there's no practical way to redirect the page without redirecting the links. Unless your page serves a 404 or 410 response code, those links will be associated with your domain. The only way to disassociate yourself from these links is through use of the Disavow Tool.

You're very welcome. I wish you the best, Don

Just to update on this i too know about Google doesn't always use our Meta tags. But its very weird when i see another meta tags when i search for mydomainname.com. But when i search for the keywords the SERP shows the meta tags i have used in my page. Weird !

Thanks again!

A quick suggestion to identify those sites. Check out their Domain and Page authority Trust flow ( Majesticseo metrics ) Check with their backlink profiles using opensiteexplorer and ahrefs.com. Their backlink profiles must be healthy and coming from quality sites. Check the pages you are going to link to. If they have thousands of outbound links. I will never link back from those kind of pages. Also Donford has suggested very useful points.

Hi Julien. Got it. The method you're describing sounds contradictory to the designed uses of canonical and as such will be difficult to make work in this approach.  Here's a few reasons... You're relying on the search engines to recognize the changes and apply them in a distinct time frame. While Google tends to be quick there's no guarantee that the changes will be applied in a fashion that lines up with your campaign dates. The thing you want to make canonical (the product) is moving from location to location. Canonical is specifically an attribute for URLs and ones that are supposed to stay static. It seems like it would make more sense to have the product be on a dedicated, canonical URL and just change the promotion around it. A redirect could better serve your purposes. With conditional time frames and offers you're probably best served by using 302 redirects. Cheers!

Hi There You need to unblock the site in your robots.txt and then go into Google webmaster tools and "Fetch as Google". Check out the image I attached for you. I usually Fetch and Render then Submit to index. It's usually very quick to index. 2nzscmZ.png?1

Hi Stephen, Well obviously you haven't tagged your new posts with any Schema.org markup, otherwise it would show up there. You could look into using Schema.org/WebPage or Schema.org/Article / Schema.org/NewsArticle if you think that would be relevant to Google.