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Personally, I think there is certainly some value in having a domain name with some age and would lean towards investing your money in that direction.  Your client certainly doesn't want to abandon getting some links to this page so I would encourage them to keep some budget open for that but if I had to recommend one over the other I think I would recommend getting the domain name with 9-10 years of history.

Good luck!

The directory looks ok with a decent PA. I would just make sure you submit your site to the appropriate category.

I agree googles searches are easy to use to find links and sometimes I will set up a google alert for keywords.

I prefer writing a short blog for a link. They can either post it in their blog or your own. We all know sometimes coming with ideas for blogs for your own site is very tedious.

Im with IanTheScot, I have been successful getting a link with DMoz, but I have also been trying to get one for 3 years with another client.

You can see what kind of re-direct you have set up by looking at the .htacess file.

A 301 redirect from t-chek.com to thchek.com would be your best bet, it will pass through the link juice from links pointing to t-chek.com

You would need to edit the htaccess file for t-chek.com

Next update looks to be around the 20th of Sept.

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule

Well it is obviously out-dated, most links are from 2007-2008. While DMoz is hard to get, if you can get a link from that directory it is worth the time and effort. Some are also expensive, like BBB, but there have been posts on SEOMoz about the worth of a BBB link.

I guess the whole list is out-dated because there are not that many trust-worthy link directories in general. It is also an older tactic, whereas finding and earning natural links seems to be the better way to get links pointing to your site.

You could use an SEO plugin so that the meta description is the same formula (ex: "category" | "blog post" etc...), several are available for WordPress.

I have a similar problem with a client of mine.
While I feel on paper, their on-site SEO is below par. They are consistently ranking #1 and #2 for their keywords.

The one thing I have done was come up with a plan and structured it out in excel and word, just in case a large problem occurs.

The best solution would be to write out your proposed changes, and start small. If you start small and structure your plan in a timeline, you can re-structure the whole site over a long period of time without seeing any negative effects initially.

I have added it to the index page of a client because they requested it (a competitor started first).

A few people have clicked it, but not enough to really justify it yet. Basically its on a trial period for them.

I could see it being more useful for blogs, if the content is good people will click it, but I am not sure if they will share it on FB, Tweet it and THEN click +1. Seems to be a lot to ask.

Ive been seeing the same thing on and off, so its not just you. But I have no idea why it is happening.

Is the brand name affected? Id make sure that you rank #1 for your brand name, because Google is giving those site large site links that almost go down to the fold before the #2 listing.

Also, I would grab as many social media profiles that you can, so if a user searches for you then your twitter, facebook, etc... accounts should show up on that first SERP page.

I'm sure there are a lot of different ways of getting rid of bad press(you'll find a ton of ideas here), and hopefully your company doesn't assume you'll create good press for them, that's up to them to change the ways they currently do business for the future.

I have not seen that before, what does the code look like.

Is it possible to save the images and host them on your clients site? Or do they change dynamically over time? (by the retailer?)

Well the main article should be on its own page with its own value, so that could gain some steam if it is linked to or picked up by other blogs as reference.

I think in the end it depends on how good the content is, if its good content then it should stay relevant and help your website.

By looking at your site I still feel like you could be doing a better job with your on-page seo and also with the content on your index page.

I would start researching local keywords and work from there. "Website Design" is too broad, IMO. Maybe start with Website Design firm in Cork, Ireland, or something like that.

Also, by Googling your phone number I was able to find your old site/design, this could be resulting in some duplicate content.

What you are referring to are site-links. I find that they appear mainly when searching for a brand name, hence when you searched for SEOMoz, you saw those site-links. But if you searched for "seo", you will notice that they are not as dominant.

Also, they are generated by Google. You can go into webmaster tools to remove them (and kind of strategically select which ones you want to appear) , but you cannot create them yourself.

Use "-" instead of "+"

Here is an article I always have bookmarked for URL Structure, even though it is from 2006, it is a good source of info from Rand.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls

Thanks for the link, I guess I was wondering if its normal to happen during any testing or caching. Everything is technically fine and SEO'ed properly.

I have noticed that some of my title tags have been altered (by Google?) on the SERP.

I am only showing the keywords on some listings, not the full title tags that I wrote, this is happening to our competitors as well.

Any idea what is going on, one of my clients is looking for answers!

Thanks