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Thank you, Jane. You rephrased my question much better. You're correct that the old site wasn't being penalized (rebranding was the reason we moved it.) I have plenty of time to improve the new site before I need to use the old domain. Thanks again, Harriet

With Open Site Explorer, I checked webstatsdomain.com where the goofy links originate. Its Domain Authority is 67/100 and Page Authority is 72/100. From your answer, it sounds like it is worthwhile to redirect it to the closest page. Thanks!

You're welcome! I think having a temporary option is great if there's enough mobile traffic coming to your website that you know it's vital for your customers. You can always put a "full, un-optimized for mobile" site link to allow mobile users to get out of the mobile interface if they can't find what they're looking for in the temporary mobile site.

Before adding new expenses purely for a speed boost, I would suggest looking at your site with PageSpeed. It is a free add-on in FireFox and is also available for Chrome. The results will let you know what opportunities you have to improve your page load optimization. Some changes offer a noticeable and immediate difference. Don't try to get a perfect score. Generally speaking, anything 90+ is fine. If you are purely looking at speed, VPS + Cloud would probably be the ideal solution. I would specifically use Amazon's cloud service to start, as they charge you on your exact usage with no minimum. If you ever get up to $100/month in usage, you can then began to examine other services to compare pricing. If you use a cloud, I recommend not only offering your images and video files, but all your CSS and Javascript files. Your users will notice the speed difference. I also want to be clear you may be able to keep your existing shared server and make other adjustments, or change hosts, and be absolutely fine. A shared server often costs less then $100/yr, where a dedicated server or VPS + Cloud will probably be $150+ per month. It's a big difference.

I have a Mac and I use Pages to make my articles and them save them as a PDF.  I'm pretty sure you can do this with Open Office as well. Adobe Acrobat is expensive!  I'm pretty sure you don't need to spend the money on it!