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I got a feeling you might have been slapped due to all your duplicate content.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aclientfirstfunding.com

Solution? Make all those pages unique:)

I'd just 301 it to your homepage, seriously doubt it would be worth the effort doing anything else unless this employee was famous and getting links from all around the web.

If you must, you could always do what others have suggested and write a nice "no longer working with us (content rich page) " and 301 all past employees pages to it.

Add more unique content, it may have been dropped after the last google farm update due to the page not being unique enough, as the others have pointed out, just build more links, obvious but true.

Is there any chance of getting the music legend to produce a "viral" sort of video? That way all the fans(ites) would post about it, and if it was good enough it would get the attention of a much wider linking audience. I'd stay far away from content farms!

May we know who it is?

I'm not sure if this is what you mean..

You want the keyword from a google search to show up on your afflink?

I hope I've understood you correctly. If you remove the unneeded subdirectory from the stucure (which you should) it would mean the other keywords in the url will carry more weight in terms of ranking.

In response to your main question.. If you are changing the URL structure more than once, do it all in one go, no doubt.

I've found them to be good when you give them a list of URLs, but only when they are fluent with english so they can contact/post whatever you ask. Just gotta keep looking for the right people

I don't think it would have any effect to be frank. Take a look here, a bit old but the closest I could find;

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=2d4592cbb613e42c&hl=en

great advice, how many satellite sites would you recommend?

10 or so?

Can't you just do a quick .htaccess url rewrite to remove the /n.c?

If you want the links to have more value sending them to the actual /n.c/ directory would be better (as long as there is no plan to change the url stucture in future.)

Don't do it. Very bad idea.

Consern your efforts with buildingt stronger links.

SEO = Gaming the search engines

Where is a does a non-spammy link come from?

Even the directorys list on SEOMOZ is outdated (according to staff).

If we stay away from squidoo and other article sites, what other options do we have? haha, the options are growing smaller by the day.

If they are ranking above you.. then it must be working. From what I can see, they are providing unquie content.. and google is eating it up. Not a good idea for long term, but for now, the proof is in the pudding.

You believe or have seen proof?

(thanks in advance)

I have to disagree with your .gov comment. I've seen a lot of.gov/.edu with autoapprove comments and the amount of OBL's on page is ridiculous. Sending an obvious signal to google because a large majority of the pages are so spammy.

However if you can get a link from a .gov with moderated comments.. fair play.

Where would you advice getting your links?

Blog comments look like spam if your keyword is in the name field and I'm sure google will crack down on this. Emailing webmasters will cost a hell of a lot if you want a lot of links. Directorys are low quality and irelevant!  Where does this leave us in terms of getting links?

Where do you ask them to get links for you?

Do you ask them to leave comments on blogs or email webmasters for a link? (if going the email route, surley most webmasters will want a chunk of change to place your link)

Regards.