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Magento causes tons of errors to show up in Moz Analytics crawl diagnostics...tons.  I'm not really sure if there is an easy way to fix that in Magento or not, it's just kind of how Magento works.

Your site does have tons of links.  Just mousing over your navigation bar shows the sheer number of links on every single page.

Duplicate title tags are also a big issue because of the way that Magento category pages work.  These pages have the same title tag, but slightly different content:

http://www.rpamx.co.uk/street/road-gear?color=131
http://www.rpamx.co.uk/street/road-gear?color=127

Magento also has tons of duplicate content issues, also a result of how Magento works.  Because most of the page is the same (massive header, sidebar, footer) the pages get flagged as duplicate content, even though the middle of the page (body) might be different.

We ended up deciding to use Magento as purely an online store, and created a marketing wrapper outside Magento for content and structure.  It's unfortunate because of how expensive Magento is, but I personally think it will be a good decision in the long run.

Magento's CMS is just terrible by the way...

I would suggest using URLs without file extensions.  It's cleaner, and easier for users to remember.

Because http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs is essentially http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/faqs/index.html (if you don't use Apache to manipulate URLs), you'll need to have a redirect set up to avoid losing any visitor flow and incoming link juice.  If you run an Apache web server, you'll want to do this in .htaccess.

I personally don't think it would make a difference one way or the other, as long as the proper 301 redirects are put into place and all traffic to the old URLs is sent to the correct new URL.

I do, however, think the sub-directory approach looks cleaner.  Anything beyond the first sub-domain looks spammy to me (or just sloppy).  That's just me though.

I would first confirm that you have authorship set up correctly by using the Rich Snippet Testing Tool: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets.

If Google shows you that everything is set up properly, then you shouldn't need to worry about it.  It's possible that Google hasn't updated its index since you added the authorship link, so that could be why some people don't see your Google+ picture in the SERPs, but Google also could just be choosing not to show it for some reason.

I've seen some of my own pages with authorship set up properly on not display my Google+ picture in SERPs before, and I was logged into my account as the author.  I'm not sure what causes Google to choose to not display the image, but it does happen sometimes.

If you have old pages that still exist but are no longer relevant - you'll definitely want to 301 redirect them to the new page or new content.  Check Open Site Explorer to see what type of inbound links these pages have, so you know what type of Page Authority you'll have pointing at your new page.

If the pages no longer exist (404 as Mike suggested above), there will be no benefit from 301 redirecting them to new pages, as Google has long since removed these pages from their index.  It won't hurt you, but it won't benefit you either, so it's probably not worth the time.

As Chris stated above, the page is certainly there.  Some CMS' will create duplicate pages and it might be as simple as determining where the page is coming from and removing it.  I couldn't find any inbound links for this page, so you would probably be ok removing it.

On the other hand, 301 redirecting the page would probably be a cleaner option.  If you are running an apache server, you would write a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file like below.

RedirectMatch 301 /extra-services/transportation--car-rails--146.html /extra-services/car-pick-up-service-146.html

This should take care of the problem, and GWMT won't bother you about it anymore.

Best and most affordable are unfortunately two different things.

If you're looking for the "most affordable" I suspect you mean cheapest.  Bluehost, GoDaddy, Hostgator - all offer WordPress capable hosting for about $5 a month (sometimes less).

If you're looking for the most stable WordPress hosting, with the fastest servers, and most uptime, I would suggest you look at WP Engine and Pagely.  They will cost a little bit more, but if it's affordable for you they are definitely a better option than the larger hosting companies.

You will have a hard time competing with Monster and Indeed for job-related broad match keywords, but you might have better luck with long tail keywords.

You could also look at posting to popular niche directories for the type of work you are looking to hire for.  If you are looking for a developer or designer, StackOverflow has a job board.  If you are looking to hire a marketing oriented job, Inbound.org also has a jobs board.  Where I live (in Minnesota, USA) we have a local marketing association that also has a job board that gets a lot of attention and traffic - so much so that showing up in the SERPs isn't even necessary.  Perhaps you have a similar place to put your postings?

If the structure is identical (I'm not clear on that from your post) then why not do a global redirect from the old content to the new content

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !newdomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://newdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This should redirect old pages to the same structure on the new domain, including images.

If you're not great at HTML, then perhaps you should consider having your site converted to WordPress.  The initial cost will definitely be outweighed by the long-term benefits.

WordPress will allow you to edit and add new content with little or no HTML/CSS knowledge.  You'll be able to use a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface to add text and style it however you see fit.

If you install the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin, you'll be able to update the title tag, meta description tag by post, set up open graph meta tags, the meta robots tag, and much much more - again - all without any HTML knowledge.

Monster and Indeed pretty much have the job-related searches locked up unfortunately.  It would be a waste of time trying to compete with them, unless you get luck and are able to outrank them on a long tail keyword - but even then you might not get the results your looking for (as far as traffic goes).

Some marketing association sites will charge you to post a job, others won't, it depends on the association.

You might be better served with referral traffic and social media traffic.  Post the job to Linkedin and see what happens?

I agree with you that the designs presented are much more appealing than your current design.  While your current site is outdated and has a "responsive" (sort of...) design, there is a lot of room for improvement.

It looks like he is an experienced designer that has a working knowledge of SEO, which is really important when considering developing or designing a new site.  URL structures, page layout, and usability all play into SEO.

As far as what design to go with, you'll probably want to sit down with your management team and first determine the following:

1. Who is using your site?
2. Why are they using it?
3. What are potentials users looking for?
4. What are we offering potential users?

After defining these answers (you probably already have done this), you'll have a better idea of what type of design you want, what type of call-to-action's you'll have, the layout and structure, etc., etc.

Yes the presence of BingSiteAuth.xml or the lack-thereof doesn't really give you a definitive answer, but it does give you a little insight into the situation.

There is really no way to know for sure if they have activated or are using Webmaster Tools accounts unfortunately, unless you have access to their email accounts.

Moz has published a lot of posts on Link Building: http://moz.com/blog/category/link-building most of them have some solid advice.

Yes - his website homepage has a short excerpt on SEO, so I'm assuming he has a working knowledge of it.

You're going about it all wrong.  You said that your goal is to drive traffic to your automotive site (pun intended), but then why are you concerning yourself with link building?

Building links for the automotive industry will be extremely difficult in the first place.  How many different blogs could you guest post on?  Probably not tons, right?  Submitting your site to directories won't help you in the Search Engines, and certainly won't drive much referral traffic.  Why bother?

You should focus on building a website that is easy for people to consume and navigate, create content that is worth peoples time, build a social media presence, and focus on customer service and improving your product/brand.

This might seem like a daunting task, but it's the only sure-fire way to "win" on the internet in the long run.

You might think that since you're in a traditionally boring internet niche, that it will be difficult for you to generate buzz about your content to earn links.  That isn't true.  I submit to you an article that Matthew Barby from Wow Internet put together on "link building" on a micro-budget.  What it comes down to is that money isn't as important as creativity.

Good luck!

I don't see a presence for your site on Google+, which might explain the drop in traffic.

David Mihm did a great Whiteboard Friday about "How Business Listings Are Made": http://moz.com/blog/how-business-listings-made-whiteboard-friday.  I would run a search for your target keyword in your location and see if your business is listed.  If not, consider creating a Google Places account for your business, and encourage friends, family, and customers to promote you and give you positive reviews there.

Their permalink structure is awful for SEO.  These pages provide very little use for search engines, and should probably be set to "noindex".

As Charles pointed out, Joomla! is not a great platform for a heavy eCommerce site like this.  I would also suggest Magento (although with it's advantages comes disadvantages - for one it's a processing beast and you'll likely need to upgrade to a better hosting company).

To 301 redirect all files in the direct to the new directory in .htaccess, try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^old\ foldr/(.*) /newfolder/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

This should redirect all HTML pages, images, you name it.  It should also account for the space too.

You'll want to move all your files to the new folder location so when the redirect happens your end user doesn't receive a 404 error.