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Thank you I think you have answered my question.  It looks like my only option now is start a new website using WordPress.  If I continue with my current website I will be throwing link money down the toilet.  What is really sad is that I bought the SEO version of the website thinking it would give me more options.

Google will index the second URL but will not pass any SEO weight to it since, as a temporary redirection, the first URL is expected to be restored shortly. You can find a very helpful explanation about redirections here: https://moz.com/learn/seo/[redirection](https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection "Redirection")

One of biggest mistakes I used to make - and I had no idea I was making it at the time - was in trying to be too cute with my H1s, H2s and meta tags/meta descriptions. How? I focused more on using fancy punctuation (e.g., dashes, pipes and colons, especially) than I did on the message I hoped to get across to readers. This was in 2010. Eventually, I discerned the trouble I was creating for myself, and not simply in the eyes of Google. Instead of thinking about what punctuation Google "recognizes," think of how you can deliver your information in the simplest, easiest-to-digest manner possible. When we attempt to get too cute with our punctuation, we must rely too heavily on someone/something else (e.g., search engines) to deliver our message in the way we hope to convey it; most important, though, it takes the emphasis off of the user, which is always, ALWAYS more interested in the best, most apropos result, not the result that highlights our prowess as A-List grammarians and punctuation scholars. My advice: Write simply to convey your message thoroughly. More often than not that means few words and even fewer punctuation characters. RS

Yes, you have to create a property for every subdomain since every subdomain has different peculiarities, like the instructions in robots.txt You may also want to reconsider to put your blog in a subfolder instead a subdomain. This has been the recommedation from Moz for a long time and still is. You can find the explanation here: https://moz.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders-rel-canonical-vs-301-how-to-structure-links-optimally-for-seo-whiteboard-friday

It's failing because of the order. With Redirect 301 / http://www.healthpointe.net first, all other pages that were after / will not work. Also, going to David's answer, redirecting a /index.html is a special case, and there are a few ways around it such as using DirectoryIndex index.html at the top of the file or with a rewrite condition such as: RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^./index.htmlRewriteRule ^(.)index.html$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

.htaccess file has nothing but BEGIN WordPress <ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule> END WordPress Installed Plugins Yoast SEO, Google XML Sitemaps, Akismat, Udinra All Image Sitemap, Social Share Bar (Digg Digg Alternative), Jetpack by WordPress.com, AuthorH Review. Apart from Yoast, it seems nothing can block site, and Yoast settings are fine, just disabled tag indexing & subpages along with author archive. Problem is something else I guess

So I made this change 2 days ago... I created a 301 from /business to /enterprise.  Here's what I am seeing so far: Both pages are indexed... why? The /business page is still ranking in the same place for the same terms The /enterprise page isn't ranking well For some reason our homepage ranking for the target keyword fell off the map completely... this is probably unrelated but not sure

You could use "Duplicate post" plugin to clone your posts and then schedule those cloned posts.

When you say "I would not do it" are you meaning that you would not add "- Free Scrabble Dictionary" at the end of all titles? Right... I used to have my domain at the end of the titles and removed it. If you believe that your title tag becomes irrelevant without that, and could be confused with any dictionary or any other type of site, then leaving it in would be a good idea. What I am advocating works for my sites, which are a mix of information and retail. When you say "I would not do it" are you meaning that you would not add "- Free Scrabble Dictionary" at the end of all titles?

Thanks!

Thanks for your advice --- very very helpful -- greatly appreciated.

Hey John, If a reverse proxy is not an option, then you're faced with either using a subdomain, or making the blog work with the existing CMS. In either situation, there's no need to set up redirects from the top domain to the subdomain or vice versa. So, setting up a fake URL at site.com/blog/article-name/ that redirects to blog.site.com/article-name/ would not provide any value. In fact, if people started linking to that fake URL it would decrease the value of those incoming links to the subdomain. Hope that helps - let me know if you have additional questions.

Hi guys, Just went through the same process as Alligator. Found this old webmaster video in which Matt Cutts states it's ok, but still recommends to use newer tactics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4LYWxXESY Hope this helps other people!

Hi Marie, I think if you feel I am not going to be penalised, I will leave them alone. Best wishes. David

Yep, it's a big, tedious task, but there are no shortcuts here to do it right.

You're very welcome, David, and good luck!

I think your answer is in the question All our old pages were 301 redirected and content is relatively the same on the new redesigned website. So if you recently remodeled and redid your URLs that's a much more likely suspect in your drop. 301s past most, but not necessarily all, page juice

If the pages don't fall within the international element of the site, or aren't covered by HREFLANG, then look at the pages that are being caught as duplication. Are they required pages? Are they there just as filler content / doorway pages? Could the pages be noindexed? Is there an opportunity to set a canonical for them to avoid duplication? -Andy

Hi again This means that because you have multiple sitemaps, Google is going to crawl those at different times possibly and at different rates, hence some of your sitemaps taking a day longer. I really wouldn't look into it too much, and just be assured that Google is crawling your sitemaps fine and indexing. If you notice major discrepancies in what you submitted and what's being indexed, then I would refer to this Google resource on how to fix issues or errors you find in your sitemap crawl. Hope this helps! Good luck!

If that is the only line in your robots.txt file then it really shouldn't accomplish anything. It's like saying, "Hey...all search engines...take note of this....oh forget it, there's nothing to see here." I agree with Dave...try to fetch the page in Webmaster tools (Google Search Console). You can also use the Webmaster Tools robots.txt tester which often will tell you if there are issues. Hi this is what we thought but Google has not indexed any pages How old is the site? It can take weeks for a new site to get indexed and then to get ranked as well. Do you see any pages on a site: search for your domain? (i.e. site:example.com). This might sound silly, but are you sure that there is no noindex tag on the page?