Since the subdomain does still exist live, someone doing a reverse proxy would need to take some steps to mitigate duplicate content issues. The first would be to set up the new permalinks and rel canonical tags via Wordpress and Yoast's SEO plugin (which rocks, btw). Then you would need to do the robots.txt/GWT steps that you quoted. If there's anything else that needs doing, I am definitely all ears before I attempt this.

Thanks for your response, Philip. My research indicates that a 301 redirect on a location that is being reverse proxied would result in an infinite loop. (source) I haven't tested it to confirm, though. Is that true?

I have an ecommerce site that we'll call confusedseo.com. I created a WordPress blog and CNAME'd it to blog.confusedseo.com. Since then, the blog has earned a PageRank of 3 and a decent amount of organic traffic.

I am considering a reverse proxy to forward blog.confusedseo.com to confusedseo.com/blog/. As I understand it, this will greatly help the "link juice" of the root domain. However, I'm concerned about any potential harm done to the existing SEO value of the blog. What, if anything, should I be doing to ensure that the reverse proxy doesn't hurt my "juice" rather than help it?

Thank you very much! Your help was much appreciated!!

Let the "waiting period" begin

Thanks

Michelle

Hello Phil,

Very helpful answer! Thank you.

We have some pages where we only have one video per page, just like you mentioned. For example: http://goo.gl/PX6X6E

We are trying different things in different pages to see if googlebot likes a specific scenario.

We saw some sites where the video was indexed and it was showing on google search and they were using the lightbox, that's why we decided to try that as well. We were wondering if the position of the video on the page had anything to do with the index success. Since a lot of our videos are being embed after the fold.

I guess, if googlebot likes the "one video per page" those pages with only one video should be indexed. We'll see! I'll wait a little longer.

Thank you!

Michelle

hello Erica,

Thank you for your answer.

I already watched all the videos I could find on the subject including videos from Wistia, Distilled and MOZ blog and It seems like I did everything the way I am supposed to.

This is one of my product pages that have the wistia video embed.

http://goo.gl/H0Ihzv

I have the wistia site map on my robots.txt file and I also manually submit one to google webmaster tools.

It's been a week since I submitted my video site map, there are no errors, but only the URL's were indexed, none of the videos.

Our goal is to display the video thumbnail on the search results next to our product pages.

thank you!

Michelle

Hello Phil,

Thank you for your time. I watched all your videos on this subject and I can't find what is causing the issue.

This is one of my product pages that have the wistia video embed.

http://goo.gl/H0Ihzv

I have the wistia site map on my robots.txt file and I also manually submit one to google webmaster tools.

It's been a week since I submitted my video site map, there are no errors, but only the URL's were indexed, none of the videos.

Our goal is to display the video thumbnail on the search results next to our product pages.

thank you!

Michelle

I have the wistia site map on my robots.txt file and I also manually submit the site map to google.

It shows that my videos were submitted successfully but they are not being indexed.  Thanks