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Shouldn't have thought so. I have implemented it on a few of my clients sites which aren't HTTPS and they are being indexed fine.

Most of the sites that use AMP pages are things like news article sites etc. which don't really need to be HTTPS as they are not saving any of the customers secure information.

Hi,

We've done a quick comparison on some of the main programs for this sort of automation, which you can read here:

https://www.one2create.co.uk/blog/social-report-vs-sprout-vs-hootsuite-comparison/

All three of them can integrate with LinkedIn to help you schedule and manage posts etc.

Hopefully, it will give you a bit of a clearer idea of some of the benefits between the different programs

Cheers

Just encase anyone is still having issues with this, or happens to come across this post in the future...

We emailed Bing support who came back and said that they had found their bots were blocked from indexing our site, there was no reason for this but just an error in their system (apparently this is quite common).

They responded pretty quickly and removed the block, a couple of days later we were being indexed and seeing traffic come from Bing!

Thanks for the responses!

We only submit to decent niche or local directories but have found a few of the smaller directories have this problem.

The site is set to redirect to the https version so it sounds like it is just the directories using the old scripts to validate the URL.

Cheers for the help though, it has cleared it up

How long ago did you make the change?

People who have done similar have also reported a drop in rankings after switching, this will mainly be down to the backlink profile.

You would have (hopefully) had quite a good backlink profile with links going to your old http domain, so when you switch to your https domain it will have less links, even though you probably have a redirect in place from the http version it will not cary across 100% of the link juice.

Its important to try and change any backlinks that you have control over to point to your https version to make the most of them

Hope that makes sense

It can sometimes take a while and they may have to keep moving it back due to the crawl index getting larger or encounting problems that they had not expected.

It should have been refreshed with the latest update yesterday though

https://moz.com/products/api/updates

Could be that your domain authority has just stayed the same? Better than going down!

Although sometimes it can take the system a few days to update the DA within your MOZ dashboard etc.

From your original post I presumed you had not wanted Google to index your pages?

If you want Google to index your pages it can take some time to happen naturally. You might want to submit a sitemap and ask Google to crawl your site within Webmaster Tools.

Robots.txt is normally only used to block crawlers, so you will not need to put any code in there for it to allow Google to crawl.

From what I understand Facebook gives pages with over a large number of likes/followers the option to target their posts.

I think your page has to have over 5,000 likes (could be wrong)

I don't do a large amount of Facebook posting or advertising myself so someone with more knowledge might be able to shed more light on it but that is what I know

I can't see that being an issue, not one that would affect it that badly any way.

Have you checked that Google is crawling the site correctly? Site set up in Google Webmaster Tools with no error messages?

Double checking that all pages can be indexed and aren't being blocked in the robots.txt file is the best place to start.

How new is the site?

We did this recently with a client of ours, we saw almost instant effects, they dropped of the radar completely for all old keywords (good, right!?) but then we only saw a slight increase in the new targeted keywords, so their overall search engine presence had dropped massively!

We will hopefully start to see a rise in the new focused keyword but its just something to keep in mind. Maybe if we were to slowly incorporate the new keyword into the page rather than change it all at once it would have had less of a dramatic change.

There is a good blog article on it here : http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/facebook-organic-post-targeting/

Doesn't say anything about only large pages having access to do it so you might be able to do it with a small amount of followers as well.

I don't know what market your website is in but maybe there are a few blogs/news websites that would write a small article about how your website is new and launching, maybe you have something unique that people will be happy to share with their readers?

It might be worth trying to come up with an outreach strategy and target website owners directly about how your new website is so amazing, and new, and useful etc.

Local directories are good to start with but I don't think its as easy as there being a specific set of link building tips that people run through when they first launch (although if I'm wrong I would love to know them!!).

It would have been allot easier if you had used the same url names as the old site.

If there is a way for you to change your url slugs to the old ones you can use this simple bit of code in the .htaccess file to redirect all old urls to the new one:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.newdomain.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

My guess that it isn't working would be that maybe "/" isn't the original home page of your old site? Do you have a "index.html"or similar and are using a .htaccess rule in your old site to determine what the root page should be?

Maybe your .htaccess file should look like this:

Redirect 301 /index.html http://www.healthpointe.net

Don't forget to tell Google webmaster tools that you have changed the address of the website - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/83106?hl=en

As long as they still have ALT tags and such I don't think it would make any difference.

The only thing to consider would be the loading speed. As if it has to go off to another server/site to retrieve the image it may take longer to load and affect your page load speed (slow speed is bad for SEO).