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Sounds like they have a super old page cached in their system. Do you have caching turned off in the new WordPress site? Most people turn it on, but I have found if you have gzip compression and css compiling turned on, it's not needed. To me, caching can create more headaches then solutions. (personal opinion)

You could also go into your webmaster account, and do a fresh "fetch as google" for the root domain,  and all linked pages. This way they will have the latest version of your site in their database. Google downloads your site so they can reference the content quickly for the search queries entered. Could be they are still on an old download. Have you ever resubmitted the site since you rebuilt it?

When was the last crawl report run? Could be that GWT has only crawled less than half of the pages since it was submitted, and therefore giving you that result (80k is a lot to crawl). As to data vocabulary vs schema, schema is becoming the standard. Even though you are using data vocabulary, it looks like the markup is working according to the rich snippet testing tool. Schema also has more extensive vocabularies

GWT is not perfect, there will be errors in the reporting. If you can see that its working, more than likely it is.

A lot of big companies (Engadget, Forbes, etc) handle this by showing the full article, and then stating "This article was originally posted on XYZ.com" and then linking to the original source. I doubt you will see any issues using the same format.

Just wanted to add, no I don't think there would be any adverse effects on ranking, unless the site was compromised somehow. Since you are on a completely different system, you should be fine with a resubmission.

On a side note, since you are on WordPress now, make sure you have the right file permissions, and shell access turned off. Hackers love a WordPress site that is unprepared.

Best of luck with the new site!

If your current site does not support php, add in another file directory, and install a wordpress or blogging site there. This could be something like:

Yourdomain.com (in root public html folder)
Yourdomain.com / blog (/blog being a subfolder in your public html folder, that contains the additional WP or CMS installation)

I dont see a SEO benefit in having your blog hosted externally. True you can have it link back frequently to your main domain, but in reality the more you post you are just feeding the blogging platform with additional pages rather than your own site. I do not see a benefit in using Google's blogging platform such as feedburner or blogspot having any additional benefits either.

Keep in mind there are no "seo benefits" from having a blog. High quality posts and content is what makes a blog valuable. Just having a lot of extra pages won't do anything to help you rank higher, or get your site seen as an authority on any given topic by Google.

Backlinks. Anchor text. Find people that will link to you using the words you want to rank for.

"Their site has no purposeful SEO in it, there is barely any text on the homepage at all and none of the text are the keywords it is ranking for."

The above statement is concerning. If they have a good budget, as their SEO and design advisor I would say what needs to be said. Text can be added in a stylized way to help improve the SEO of any site without taking away from a good design. Google likes words, not CSS and images. Without a reference, it's hard to judge what can be improved, and how you should go about suggesting it to your client. You also mentioned rankings, but what do those rankings look like? Are we talking page one, or top 3?

You have 2 options:

1. You can turn off the duplicated site, and do a URL removal request in Webmaster tools. The domain you do not want anymore, or the one that is causing the duplication must return a 404 error in order for Google to accept the request. This will cause the entire old site to go away, and the links to be removed from Google's index. If the site does not have a lot of traffic, or does not get a lot of visits, this would be the best route.

2. Do 301 redirects on the duplicated site. You should try and match them up, such as:
olddomain.com/your-blog-post
301 redirects to
NEWdomain.com/your-blog-post

If they do not match up exactly, use best judgement and redirect them either to the home page, or a similar subject matter. For example if you had an seo related topic that wasnt exact match, you could forward it to another article that referenced seo. If you have to send a few to the home page, that wont hurt anything, just dont make the total number excessive, as that could potentially look spammy. Best of luck, If you need any help let me know!

If you are wanting to do that, just create a redirect from one page to the other.

However, you could also create new content for the new site, and have 2 chances to rank rather than just one. If it was me, I would leave the old page alone, and dedicate the new url to all new content targeted just at singing lessons (since you have the exact match domain, I mean, that is what you purchased it for correct?)

The new domain should be all about singing lessons such as: cost, class information, different types, pretty much anything you get asked in person when people are interested include that in the site.

If the current page does not rank at all, you can consider redirecting the page, although I don't really see any benefit to doing so. Even though you have an EMD you can still brand the site visually so people know its you.

Wanted to get the communities feedback on this.

WDAC is designing a new section of our site. This new section is aimed at helping small businesses that want to get SEO help, but are not in a position financially/do not want to pay an agency for help. The page can be viewed here: http://www.webdesignandcompany.com/expert-seo-tips

The page is called "Expert SEO Tips" and we are going to promote other authors content that focuses on high quality articles around SEO tactics, methods, tips, tricks, etc. There are a few articles listed on the page based around what we have shared in the past, but you can see that the page/section is still in its infancy and may change to a new layout/design in the near future. The section will summarize the article we are linking to , and provide a link to the authors Twitter/G+ profile, depending upon what they have setup.

We have reached out to a few places in the Google+ communities asking for articles and submissions, but have had little success. Strange due to the fact that we are providing outgoing links without requesting one back...hmmm. Anyway, what do any of you think would be the best way to get people to respond?

Also, does anyone see any issues with adding this type of content to our site using followed links, specifically since we are linking out to relevant articles related to our own services? Does anyone see any potential pitfalls? Does anyone have any articles they think would be a great addition or provide help to business owners? All input and insight is appreciated! Looking forward to hearing your input.

I would have all URLs go to the secure version. It makes more sense to have one version indexed.

If there was a purpose for the Secure Socket Layer to begin with I would assume you would only want people to access that version.

Sounds good to me. We are more focused on keyword rankings, traffic trends over time, etc than brand mentions. If you are branded correctly you will come up when a search is done for your name.

The one thing I would change is the amount of keywords per account. Each level of moz pro gives you a different amount of keywords and a certain amount of accounts. For our account, I would like to have more accounts as long as we fall under the keyword amount. For example we could have 20 accounts that share the same keyword amount. Most of our clients only care about 20-40 keywords, but we are limited by the amount of accounts we can have. Seems counter-productive to have it set up this way.

If it's possible, can you combine the products with variables into on page? Using the store's cart and checkout function, I would include a gallery of all the different colors/options, then have the selected options available through a dropdown menu. This way you have one page for a product, with selectable options rather than a large number of pages based around one thing. This may also help with on-page user time as well, since they will sort through the options to find what they are wanting.

Since you are going to have a /marketing page above the success page, is there a plan to link out to many areas of marketing content within your site? mening are you setting it up this way to have marketing be a top level page, that has many categories? If so, then yes, use this structure.

Form another user: "The thing I'd worry about is "marketing/success" implies marketing has greater importance than success, in the root scheme of things." I agree with this, in that the SE will view "marketing" as a higher priority directory than "success"

For that individual page, I would use the url domain.com/marketing-success, as the keywords will appear often in the content that same way. Search engines will treat the hyphen as a space, rather than a separate directory. It is possible to have the page rank high using the other format, but I forsee the hypenated version working out better for you.

Did you keep the page URL structure the same on the new site? If so, you can do a simple htaccess rule that will forwards all traffic from one domain, to the corresponding pages on the other domain. If not, then you will have to go through and check each one manually.

Have all the steps been covered? Did you resubmit a new sitemap? Specify in "fetch as Google" that all the new pages on the new site be crawled? If you are using a CMS, did you check to see if multiple versions of a certain page exist, and forget to redirect those?

Lastly, even though you still see references to the old domain, do the 301 redirects work? Once clicked do they send a user to the new domain?

A few things:

1. Are there any links pointing at the page(s) you want to rank, rather than the root domain?
2. How many links are indexed? Do a site search to view this: (site:www.yourdomain.com, and also site:yourdomain.com to check for non-www versions)
3. Have you submitted the main URLs in webmaster tools using the "fetch as Google" option
4. Run the site in SEO-browser to see how the pages render out. Your seo efforts might look good on-page, but render out strange in the eyes of the search engines. (h3's before h1's, etc)
5. Check analytics for referring URL's, and set up an account in moz to check backlinks of you, and your competition.

Should be a good start

Sorry denverish, I have been really busy lol

Point number 3 refers to "pinging" your website, to let the search engines know your site has been updated. There are a few spammy ones out there, but I would try using:

http://pingomatic.com/
or
https://pingler.com/

Pinging is a process by which you can inform major Search Engines and RSS direcotries(Google,Bing,Yahoo,Technorati etc) that you have updated content/URL's in your blog/Website. Pinging can also help in getting website changes indexed quickly.

To be clear, what type of cart system does the site use? VirtueMart? Magento?

I agree with the posts above, in that sometimes it doesn't hurt, but at the same time, you aren't doing the product pages any favors. Two ways to look at this would be:

1. Having the URL structure set up like you example will still get the pages indexed, if they are included in a sitemap, and submitted correctly, furthermore if the content on those pages is a good match.

2. Having the pages set up that way will limit the ranking potential of those pages, by having a long URL, without relevant keywords in place. Let me explain:

In your example:
www.example.com/women/denim-jeans/py/c/109/np/108/p/3834.html

You have the opportunity to potentially rank for "womens denim jeans" using that url. This somewhat limits the ranking potential of the items, as they are all tied into one specific category, that being "womens denim jeans". Lets look at another example:

www.example.com/women/denim-jeans/faded-wash/indigo-dye-item-details3834.html

In the above URL, you are much more specific in the style and type of jean it is, and a user will know (and a search engine) what the page is specifically about. Style, color, keyword, category, etc. Since you most likely have a large catalog of product types, why limit your item details to a bunch of unnecessary numbers and slashes?

I would also look at a way of using product markup to make the items stand out further in search results. Google likes to see "the complete package". Using clean specific URL's and schema product markup tells a much clearer pricture than /py/c/109/np/108/p/3834.html. Depending on the CMS used, there may be a component or plugin that takes care of the product markup for you, from the item description and details.

Hope this helps!

Do you have access to the root folder of your site? Try adding this into your HTACCESS

#Redirect your Homepage from HTTPS to HTTP

RewriteCond%{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule^$ http://%{HTTP_HOST} [L,R]

If that does not work, try adding this below the Rewritebase line:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (?!^(index.php/?|..css|..js|..gif|..jpe?g|..png|..txt|.*.ico|)$)^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
RewriteRule ^(index.php/?|..css|..js|..gif|..jpe?g|..png|..txt|.*.ico|)$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=302,L,NC]

Write for the user, not for ranking. If the users like, and share, and spend time navigating through your content, search engines will take notice.

Easiest way? Look at what is one the site, look at what the competition is writing, and how they rank. Look back at yours and compare.

"Is every post you write on your site is SERPs worthy?"

This is only something you and your traffic can answer. Reading through what you have, does it address all aspects of the point you are trying to make, or give all information on a topic you are trying to cover? What is it that makes people like or share what you have written?

"You need a content development plan."

"Should the 301 redirects map the canonical URL on the old site to the corresponding canonical for the new design . . . or should they map the non canonical database URLs old and new?"

Any URL's that are indexed should be redirected to the correct version. For example if you have both a database URL and a canonical URL both indexed in search results, then they both should be sent to the correct version.

Also, having only canonical URLs in your submitted sitemaps will help to remove a lot of these, even without redirects.