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Glad to be of help, Cindy. Good luck! Miriam

Alan does have the best response here. We do have a bug with some users not getting their credit, so emailing the help desk will help them to track this and figure it out, and they'll be able to give you your credit as well.

I think basically Mark is right, good be a combination of items. I would need to sort through the first suspicions on the sudden drop and also address some of the suggestions from Mark - competition, and most definitely optimizing the site, I can only hope the client will move forward with implement ion. thanks again for assistance. _Cindy

Hello Cindy Another thing you could consider is to remove the www redirector and see if that then does the correct redirect immediately That would stop the doubles and as the domain isn't going to be in the index eventually, you don't care about having both the www and non-www live.

OK, so simple 301 redirects seem to be working out fine. But having a thing for a puzzle, and thus far learning more about htaccess, I am wondering why a simple rewrite... or "redirect" rule would not work. Like this: RewriteRule ^(./blog)$ http://cmsearchmarketing.com/blog$1.php [R=301,NC] or this RewriteRule ^./blog$ http://www.cmsearchmarketing.com/blog [R=301,NC] (...and this goes into the old site htaccess with the old domain name, NOT the new site with the new domain name; and the new site basically has all new page names.) Where in the htaccess file would it go... after the WP permalink rule - considering I am using permalinks on the site and writing the rules with the permalink structure? Can I write a rule such as this and redirect to another domain all together? When would I use [L] for last rule? And what's the difference in a rewrite and a redirect? OK, if anyone is pursuing and can help I would appreciate. Thank you very much. _Cindy

More information can be found here regarding this setting and how it is used by Google.  It will help answer your question. https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=44231 To be honest though I'd just update the GWT setting or the 301 so they are both the same...

Thank you Jennifer. _Cindy

We are having some problems with them right now, and the team is troubleshooting as I write this. Keep an eye on Twitter for updates, and I'll also come and update this page when we know more. So sorry for the inconvenience!

Not this time, but will keep it in mind. Thanks again. _Cindy