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Hi James, Are you seeing signs that this is slowing the impact of your link building? My thought is that you do not need to change anything here, I would leave it as is. Google looks at root domain URLs with and without trailing slashes as equivalent, see the resources below. "Should we always add the final / or avoid it? Does it make a difference?" Answer: "There's no difference between them. (As opposed to not putting a slash on links into a directory, for example.)" (source) "Rest assured that for your root URL specifically, http://example.com is equivalent to http://example.com/ and can’t be redirected even if you’re Chuck Norris." (Source - Google Webmasters Blog) Hope this helps!

Yeah, I thought that may have been the reason. Thank you for your help and my spelling correction.

Hi Dana, We didn't change the domain name. Same domain name for last 10 years. Recently we migrated to same CMS (Wordpress to wordpress). Just redesigned the website and launched back

I agree with you James. Even Google ignore them at a point; but may consider with overall link profile. I tried hard to find about this negative SEO when our website dropped in rankings without any onpage changes. I tried and tired to figure out anything out of the thousands of backlinks and hundreds of new backlinks adding every week. Finally we started diverting our energy to onpage rather than worrying about this offpage where we wouldn't be getting any help from anyone. If we go for routine SEO consultancies, they will start creating new pages. If you go to some penalty removers, they will disavow many backlinks. Not sure what's going to workout.

Great question! I'm Director of Engineering for Moz Local, and we think both Hotfrog and Best of the Web are important for us to deliver the value of Moz Local’s listing management. That said, we at aren't using them for link building. The way we look at Hotfrog and Best of the Web (and all of our partners) is not around the direct value of the links on their sites, but what their place is in the local ecosystem (https://moz.com/learn/local/local-search-data-us). Here’s what we consider important in a partner: Are they (directly or indirectly) one of the many sources of local listing information used by major search engines? Do their listings help ensure that our customers’ locations can be found with correct information outside of major search engines? Our approach has always been to make sure we have partners who can help us provide us much coverage as possible so we can ensure that the data you give us is consistent everywhere, and we can reduce the amount of inaccurate data that’s out there. Of course, as the local ecosystem changes, we evaluate whether our partners are meeting those needs — the industry doesn’t stand still and we can’t either.

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here! Where we're getting keyword suggestions from depends on which tool you're using. For Moz Pro, the suggestions come from our own data and data from a third party, Similarweb. For Keyword Explorer, the suggestions are based on our own database of millions of keywords. I hope that helps, but if you've still got questions, feel free to shoot us a note at help@moz.com and we'll do our best to sort things out for ya!

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Hey Bryce, Thanks so much for your reply it's much appreciated. I was starting to think down the same lines regarding domain authority, but thought maybe the two sites linking together so much would argue that it wouldn't have huge impact when you take into account the extra authority in France that a .fr site may hold. That's my dilemma! But I think you are right that taking everything into account, the subfolder option just takes the edge. Thanks again for taking the time to answer All the best Joe

I personally have not seen this before, but that is due to being English speaking only. I don't see much else on the web about it either which lead me to wonder if it was due to account settings for some reason. I'll flag this up as a discussion, see if we can find someone that has dealt with this before.

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's help team here! I think I can help explain. The big difference between these two blogs is how much link data we have for them in our Mozscape Index. Page Authority (PA) is a score developed by Moz that predicts how well a specific page will rank on search engine result pages (SERP). Page Authority scores range from one to 100, with higher scores corresponding to a greater ability to rank. Page Authority is based on data from the Mozscape web index and includes link counts, MozRank, MozTrust, and dozens of other factors. Like Domain Authority, it uses a machine learning model to identify the algorithm that best correlates with rankings across the thousands of SERPs that we predict against, then produces Page Authority scores using that specific calculation. In the screenshots you included above, it looks like one blog has all 0s for their MozRank, MozTrust, links to that page, etc., while the other had more significant numbers. I think that helps account for why that site has a higher Page Authority. I hope that helps! If you've still got questions, feel free to drop us a line at help@moz.com.

I'm not sure how many redirects you're doing, but generally, they're not a problem if you're trying to redirect broken pages to new ones so that users get a better experience. A few things to bear in mind though which can cause problems: Avoid multiple redirect "hops" e.g. going from page A to page B to page C. Wherever you can, write the redirects so that they go directly to the new page which is the final destination for the user. Keep the redirects "one to one" - basically avoid redirecting lots and lots of pages to a single destination if you can. Redirect to the most relevant page that you can in terms of the topic of the pages e.g. redirect a page about blue widgets to a blue widgets page, not a red widgets page - if that's possible. Do a crawl of the redirects using a tool such as Screaming Frog in list mode to check them all and make sure you turn on "follow redirects" and check the "redirect chains" report it provides. I hope that helps!

What you're describing sounds like registration spam, which can be a royal pain.  About two years ago spammers found a vulnerability in my CMS where they used bots to inject the spam into registration fields that ask for a user profile,  I ended up removing write access for the user profiles and added ReCaptcha for all registrations.   When it first happened my site had more than 8,000 bot registrations overnight. Good times!