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Hi, Not really, it's not very important to have the priority elements in the sitemaps at all as Google usually decides on the priority to crawl pages themselves. Regardless of what you put in the sitemaps. Having two different locations for sitemaps containing the same URLs might be something to look into in the future. They like having 1 sitemap that is completely correct without mistakes. It provides you with a better authority then having issues with your sitemap(s). Hope this helps!

Are you in anyway related to that "Beaver Country" game?  I'm not sure why they would be 301 redirecting that subdomain to you...  It has links from Apple, etc. related to that particular game. If you do have a page/content or something else that would be related to that particular site, then, but aren't the "new" version of that site, you might try a blanket redirect for traffic from that referrer to the related page on your site.  e.g.  adding something like this to htaccess.. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .gameon.timesonline.com.$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.allstatebanners.com/some-page Note.. I have not tested the above code.. but it should give you the basic idea of redirecting all traffic from that referrer to a specific page of your site...  You could also use that same logic to simply block all the referral traffic altogether. -Jake Bohall

A blanket 301 from all pages of the purchased domain to your domain will work without a problem. If the previous owners transfer GWMT and GA access of the domain, then it is worthwhile reviewing also search terms (optimize your landing pages and campaigns for them too). Look at the top landing pages of the purchased domain and the PR of the inbound links. In some cases it will be worthwhile to discredit links based on reputation and in others it is worthwhile to 301 to new landing pages directly.