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Moving the content over and 301ing the old URL will do that. You'll see a dip in ranking, then a recovery period (usually weeks as opposed to months). That's your best bet when you are forced to make a move like that. Ideally, you'd find a way to keep the content where it is, but if that's not possible, then the 301 will do.
Keep in mind, if you want to use this character, a lot of people may not see it in the SERPs, and it could just make your site look glitchy like the attached image.
What do you call a porn-addicted Mozzer? A person with a lot of link juice.
Yeah, I heard Moz gets a lot of porn traffic. I also heard they get a lot of unauthorized backdoor entries.
Something something DDOS attack. Something something too many partners.
I'll be here all week, or until Moz bans me.
I'm sorry. I'll go back to spreadsheets.
You can always go in and edit the .htaccess file yourself to put in the redirect. Here is some help with that, you'll likely find what you need under "301 Redirects in Apache": http://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection
This was brought up a little while ago, hopefully Chiaryn's answer here can help: http://moz.com/community/q/without-robots-txt-no-crawling
Yeah, your robot.txt seems fine, but the answer sounded like the error code could be misleading, so maybe you're looking in the wrong area for the root of the problem due to that reason. Wish I could be of more help.
Sorry, Google treats them as different URLs: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash.html
Play it safe and redirect. You probably don't need to do hundreds of individual redirects though. Try using Regex in the .htaccess file to solve your issue. Might end up being 2 lines of code in a rewrite rule.
You could also implement rel=canonical tags as an alternative.
It looks like the rule is attempting to rewrite www.legacytravel.com and legacytravel.com to legacytravel.com/carrollton-travel-agent, but it's not working. This is likely due to the piece on line 3 before the final URL (unless the person was attempting something else I'm not familiar with). Others issues could be the rewrite engine not being turned on, the .htaccess file being in the wrong place, or some other issue, like server settings.
Alright... just give me a day or two since you don't have me on retainer 
That's pretty strange. There isn't another web person there who might have cleaned things up without telling you? Or maybe your server company?
I don't see how these URLs could be indexed if they never existed, so at some point, someone created those pages and they were around long enough to get indexed. Are there any weird spikes in crawl rates or search queries since the launch of the subdomain?
I've seen this kind of hack before. The hacker just drops some folders full of HTML files into the roots. That's why all those links have a two characters sub directory. That was the folder the HTML files were in before someone likely just saw those folders in the root and deleted them. Maybe they didn't realize what they were doing and thought they were just doing the house cleaning?
Doing a "site:mshowells.com/ci/" or "site:mshowells.com/sp/" can show you what I'm talking about.
Make sure the 301s you put in place are functioning properly. Did you 301 all pages from the old site to the new one? Did you redirect them at a page-level or just grab all the old URLs and redirect them all to the new root domain?
Also, look at analytics and GMT for the old and the new domain. Do the increases on the new domain correspond with the drops from the old domain? Maybe there some spots on the old domain that are still there and need to be redirected? The data in these spots should help you determine if something is out of whack.
How long ago was the domain change? This kind of drop can be expected for a couple weeks, but too much longer than that, and something else may be wrong.
The Yoast SEO plugin is a good one to go with. Your title tags are changing in the code, so it's not the plugin.
Sometimes (and more often in recent months), Google will rearrange or rewrite a title for their search results. The most common way I see them do it is: "Brand Name: Title Content." You can only attempt to change this with the title tag, but Google still might alter it depending on the query searched to find the site.
The focus keyword is just a little tool to help you in the backend. You can focus on more than one keyword if you'd like, just check each keyword individually in the tool if you want to use it.
