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Thank you Christy & Jacob

Hi Patrick, While an HTML site map is one way to add internal links to these pages, it may not be enough to get them to rank for anything (even if they do get back into Google's index thanks to the new links). In addition to the HTML site map, if you choose to build one, I would take a look at these pages and see how they can be better integrated into the main site. What are some user paths that might make sense for people to take to arrive at these pages? Bringing these orphan pages back into the fold will have a higher SEO impact and also increase the likelihood that people find these pages by browsing your site. I know this is a solution that will take more time and effort, so in the short term you might try the HTML site map and see how far that gets you. Good luck!

If you want nothing on that test subdomain indexed, verify that subdomain as its own site in Google Webmaster Tools, exclude that subdomain from being indexed in robots.txt, then request removal of that site (subdomain) in GWT. And consider setting up a page monitor like https://polepositionweb.com/roi/codemonitor/index.php on the robots.txt of your test site (and live site). It'll check the contents of those pages once a day, and email you if there's a change. Handy if there are multiple people working on the site.

no I don't think so, by the way they can see the images is the same, but this will not be a problem.

Agree with Tim.  The key is that a 302 redirect is universally accepted as a temporary redirect header response - that link will (should) not last.

Hi, The fact that you do not have mobile versions for all pages of the site makes your case a bit of an odd one when it comes to best practices.  I would recommend if at all possible to address this and make all pages available in mobile format also. If for whatever reason this is not possible then I think you are better off using a meta robots tag NOINDEX to get your mobile results out of the serps completely and a rel canonical to the relevant desktop page to make extra sure there are no issues with duplicate content. If you can get all pages into a mobile version then you will want to implement proper redirects based on user string as you are doing, and also implement rel alternate/canonical tags between the desktop and mobile pages of the site (which should make sure the right version of the site shows up in the relevant serps). For more details on the whole setup check: http://moz.com/blog/how-to-optimize-a-mobile-site and http://moz.com/blog/mobile-seo-process

Hi there, There's much more you can do: Link all of your language versions using a crawlable language menu. Like this Google will be able to initially crawl and index these versions. Create a Google Webmaster Tools profile for each one of your language versions independently, like this you will be able to generate a specific XML for each (besides tracking each one of them much more easily), and if they are not only language targeted but also, country targeted, you can also geolocate them through GWT too. Add to each specific XML sitemap the hreflang annotations referring to the language of each one of your websites as specified here. To help you with this you can use this MediaFlow tool. Add the hreflang annotations in the HTML too, in the head section of the HTML of each one of your different pages, as specified here. The more of these you do, the easier will be for Google to identify that these new version of your sites are targeting these additional languages. Thanks!

Hi, Google is very aware of ads, so it's entirely possible that Google is aware that that subdomain is for ads only, and isn't indexing it anyway. To see if Google is indexing it, go to Google and type in "site:ads.domain" to see if it's indexed. If it isn't, Google won't find any results. If you want to remove that subdomain from Google's index, you won't be able to add it as a URL parameter in Webmaster Tools, since it's an entire URL. Instead, remove it from the index with robots.txt. Google explains how to do that here. Last, and we have to say this as SEOs, there's a good chance you are or will be penalized for using most of your homepage for ads! We'd strongly recommend that you remove some, or add some more content so that the majority of your homepage is unique content. At the very least, move most ads below the fold. Hope this helps! Follow up if you have any more questions, Kristina

I would recommend changing the links. Rel=canonical should carry across all authority for charter.intelliresponse.com to ask.charter.com, but you're still better off pointing all links you can change to ask.charter.com directly.