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Is code on .htaccess works? It should be on top because that file is executed from top to bottom. And if some rule must be executed then execution flow can stop so next rows can't be executed.

Could someone help me with that ? Effect digital to answer your question, I am talking about both. Are related topics things appearing in related search queries on google front end ? and are they also what is in Moz back end ? By the way in the back end Moz doesn't call it related topics anymore, they call it content suggestions. What I am really trying to understand is are those suggestions just words to include or is topics to talk about in depth. Imagine I do a "bike tour in Alsace"(France) and Moz in its content suggestions tells me Alsace wine and cycling holidays.. what do I need to do with that  ? become the new wikipedia and develop in a paragraph about Alsace wine and talk about the different alsace wine, the grapes etc... or just include the word Alsace wine in my content with other words about the Alsace region that Moz recommends such as Colmar or Vosges so that  google understand that I am talking about a bike tour in Alsace ? Thank you,

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Hi, Thanks for the answer and sorry for the late response. I understand what you mean, but I still have the following question: there is no possibility to add extra content to the blog category pages, unless through source code. This means I can not add extra text on these pages, so these blog category pages just sum up all the different blog articles of which the titles are H2's. Will these pages ever rank, because it is not really unique content about one subject? Thanks!

Thanks, this is a really helpful answer.

That's pretty much what I figured. Dang!

Thank you for your detailed answer.

This all comes down to the fact that, technically 302 has always been 'found', but there was no status code for a temporary redirect so Google advised people to use 302 (as no one really ever used it for its intended purpose) Now you have 307. To this day, you can still use 302 or 307 (we're still in the transition period, where both still function identically) A 301 will gradually transfer SEO authority from one page to another, over a few weeks / months - so that the old URL stops ranking and the new URL 'has a chance' of ranking in its place. If the new URL has highly dissimilar content (in machine-terms) then the 301 fails to transfer a portion of the authority and some is 'deleted' (vented into cyberspace) A 302 retains the ranking benefit on the old page and nothing is transferred to the new page (period). Over time (a month or six) the 302 will decay. Slowly the authority (which has been kept on the old URL) will begin to 'die off' and you end up (in an extreme situation) with no authority left anywhere from that particular URL (it's just gone). 307s function the same way As such, using a 302 or 307 is the correct measure, but remember - Google will be watching to check that the redirect really is temporary. If your whole company forgets about restoring the content to the original URL (for a significant period of time) then don't expect that there will be anything left when you come back In an ideal world, you'd turn it all around inside of one month if you wanted some good juice left when you lifted the 302 / 307

As long as all of the URLs stay the same and you aren't building a blog network (a bunch of sites that interlink), I don't think you'd see much of an SEO difference. I haven't seen anyone complain about that particular issue which is a good sign. If/when you follow through, please comment back and let everyone know your experience!

Hi Davit, Thanks for the links! I agree with you that it seems a bit weird seeing this business, with no GMB listing, doing so well organically. I looked at a few things I normally look at, and couldn't see a "easy" explanation. So, I asked one of our organic SEO experts, Britney Muller, if she could take a glance at this, and she suggested a couple of things: Your competitor has been around since 2006, so pretty established Your competitor has invested in links, which appear to be paying off "LAX car service" is one of the phrases they are doing best on, though they are not doing so well on other terms They are investing heavily in PPC, which could be producing what she described as some sort of "halo" effect Taking all of that into consideration, I do consider this competitor of yours as having earned rankings for this term that don't make immediate sense. Give this, I believe if you could hire a good company to do a full competitive audit for you, you should be able to map out a strategy to surpass them, but it may take some doing. Hope you'll receive other feedback.

Hi Tim, Thanks for getting back to me. It was a fundamental rebuild from the ground up, so pretty much a brand new site on the domain. I can't see that the algorithm on the 27th October will have impacted performance to be honest, it actually looks like the site has been struggling organically for some time (from even before the time we acquired the site) but when the site redesign went live it dropped dramatically! Looking forward to hearing your advice - it's appreciated!!! Thanks.

Hi Choice This will clear it up for you: 1. You don't need index follow on any of these pages as that is the default setting anyway. The only reason I would use a robots tag is if I wanted to noindex a page. 2. Sorted Page and Pagination of sorted pages - remove the index/follow and replace with a self-referencing canonical tag to the main category rel="canonical" href= https://www.site.com/category/ You do not want sorted pages and pagination of sorted pages appearing in Google. You just want them pointing back to the main category. That will tell Google to ignore the sorted URL and index the core URL. 3. Paginated page For pagination, you need to add rel=prev and rel=next (You don't need a canonical) - this is just for category pagination. Still relevant for pagination: https://moz.com/blog/pagination-best-practices-for-seo-user-experience Just don't get confused between sort pages (low grade) and pagination (needed for Google to crawl all the content & links) and don't let Google index any of the sorted pages. Regards Nigel

That's what I would do Joe!