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How do you mean 'is this bad' - what aspect?

It's not great that your meta description is the same on each page. It should describe the page, not be generic to the whole site.

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Paid positive reviews are definitely not what they want to see but it's a bit less clear about paid impartial reviews as you aren't trying to influence what to write. I'd still steer clear though and find ways to encourage genuine reviews with the money saved. Given that you may end up paying for a bad or neutral review I don't see the point.

Got to agree with Patrick - the first URL's look normal and the others look simply odd.

Remember your site is for humans as well as search engines.

I would work on the assumption that it will affect the rankings on desktop too and if you have time to make your site responsive in time then I would - it covers all bases then.

Also, as mobile searches are increasing it makes sense to go responsive as soon as you can.

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If there's a reason to have both sites live then instead of a 301 (which would only show the content from one site) you could use a canonical (if the content can't be updated to something different enough) and chose the main of the two sites

Why will it be two blogs if it's all about the same product? It may be worth looking at just one blog but tagging topics so people can find what they are after quickly

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Don't know what site you have but I get <cite>oasis-land.com </cite>at 4.

Your spot check Google results might be skewed by personalisation. Try adding &pws=0 at the end of the URL and see if results change

I'd 301 it if it has trust and no spam.

I'd look at doing the redirects to the most relevant pages though rather than just the home page - as you say the content is similar to what you have - it shouldn't be too hard to match up the important pages.

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Check out this http://moz.com/learn/seo/internal-link

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If I understand correctly, I wouldn't add anything to your main/home page URL. You could always add to the info on the page or the meta tags where it makes sense to.

A specific page for debt settlement would be best which would then be /debtsettlement

Sorry, Just come back to do that and seen your comment.

Linda's answers sounds good and yes it does count as duplicate.

Hopefully they will agree to implement the tags as it shows you as the source and not them. Google doesn't always know which site something came from in the first place.

Good advice above but I'd also ask him to educate you in SEO and his plan for marketing your site. Any SEO should be able to explain what they are doing for you and why - you are after all paying for them and it shouldn't be a 'dark art'.

If they don't help you, try and educate yourself using the great resources on this site and get another SEO...

Hi, if you can get yours indexed first it would be seen as the original - otherwise it's difficult to tell.

I would add that if you are going to have user generated content, make sure there's a review process so it doesn't get spammed/abused.

Even if Google can't detect poor English now, it will be working towards it.

Surely your money is better spent elsewhere. Invest in the long term.

If the articles they are writing for you are low quality, you can bet the sites they are able to get them on are low too.

Keep away from them and work on quality. Nothing is quick and easy and that's how it should be. If people could so easily buy their way to the top, the search results wouldn't be worth using.

This might be useful to you http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/webmaster-guidelines/

Might have been ODesk https://www.odesk.com/o/jobs/browse/skill/joomla/

Disability topics definitely sound like the way to go as Egol said. They help set your client up as an authority on the subject, building trust with potential clients.

The (unique) content could also be used on other sites helping get the name of your client out to a wider audience.

Not sure that fishing etc will help unless you can link those topics to what he does.

Good luck

The 301 shouldn't be a problem but as stated it might be odd if used on advertising and then people end up on a different domain. It will help you snap up domain name so no-one else can use it though.

If you don't want a duplicate nl site in Dutch, you could keep the nl domain to a single page with Dutch content and then suggest Dutch visitors visit your main .com site. Would be worth having a contact page with address in Holland too.

If you make the nl site a re-gig of your .com site, make the content as different (and appealing to Dutch visitors) as possible.

Although many Dutch can speak English, they can't all, especially older generations so bear in mind when thinking about just serving English content.