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In the meantime it might not be a bad idea to add a warning or just take it down.

Would you mind posting or messaging me the correct script?  It would be a great help, thanks.

Not an unusual situation, I have a blog on blog.domain.com it has quite a few blog postings.  The platform is old and will be scrapped, but the blog content itself is going to be moved to domain.com/blog.

The current process is we are manually listing all linked to/content pages and we are going to 301 redirect them to their counterparts on the new blog.  This is going to be a tedious process.

A) Is there any way to automate the moving of the blog?

B) What is the best way to do the massive 301 redirect, php headers, .htaccess?  Should we move the individual pages with redirects, or redirect the domain in the .htaccess (this will be very difficult to match all the titles and file structure)?

It depends what you are going for here.  It is typically recommended that you install the blog at mydomain.com/blog/ because it gives the link value to mydomain.com.  This is the best option if you want your main domain to rank higher and for long tail search.

If you put it at blog.mydomain.com it will count as a subdomain and the link value will be split. This option can be beneficial if your main domain already ranks where you would like it to, or will be able to without the blog.  Then you can use the blog to dominate rankings by having a first and second listing with the subdomain.

mydomainblog.com is not recommended as it is a completely separate domian and will have no synergy with your other doman.

At some level they are user generated, but then they are put into the database and handled from there.

It's actually surprising how many of the links are long term links, while they do sink off of front pages and whatnot, they are still there and even the mild value of them shouldn't go to waste.

One of the sites I work for is an employment site, they have a job database and the job pages tend to get links.  The problem is that every time one of these jobs is filled, the job page goes away.  What should I do to keep the value from these links?

Awesome, thats the one, thanks!

Looks like it checks out, does it have the ability to organize passwords by company or profile?

I have seen many solutions and tried most of them.  But when serving multiple companies the amount of passwords one has gets astounding.  It is hard to find a way to securely store them, but also have the convienence of looking them up.

What solutions do you recommend?

You can always rel canonical tag your old site to pass the juice to the new one and deal with the problem of duplicate content.

Another option, you can 301 redirect all the "front end pages" and just keep your login access to your back end.

Thank you, Those are both very good sites although not necessarily directly related to Press Releases (but I guess those are dead, anyway).

I remember in a Rand presentation or article there was a blog site that was relatively the same as HARO with people posting their blog posts to be used as cited quotes in other blog posts, and the site pulled them up as you wrote your blog post for relevancy, any chance you remember the name of that site?

As familiar as I am with Yahoo SiteExplorer I have never used it to find external links that go to pages that are no longer there.  How can I do this with that tool?

I know that I used to be able to do this, but I can't seem to remember.

One of the sites I am working on has had a lot of pages moving around lately.  I am sure some links got lost in the fray that I would like to recover, what is the easiest way to see links going to a domain that are pointing to 404 pages?

Many of my clients release newsletters and other peices of content qualify as press releases.  I have been wondering if people find that the press release sites such as PRleap or PRweb are useful and worthwhile?  If so, which do you feel is the best?

Is there any research on this?  I am planning to record my results from these sites and perhaps make a Youmoz post in the future.

Casey's answer pretty much nails it, here are a few specific tricks I use to make the process faster though:

Using the moztoolbar do a SERP overlay on the sites for the search term to easily get a feel for the difficulty of competition based on domainrank.

Do a whitespark report to see how many citations the other sites have compared to your site.

Do getlisted.org search on their sites/your sites to get a basic idea of how involved the other sites on the local search are.

Run on page optimization reports for the terms, local and not, to see if you can gain a relevancy advatnage.