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So yes, to clarify -we are an classified advertisements website. Everybody else has lets say website for spain and then they split that website into city-keyword. As we are only for one city, but in our domain name, there is no mention of the keyword, would making a 301 redirect of our main www.example.com to **website.com/target keyword **give us a ranking edge? I see everybody is doing that who ranks highly.

Hello,

thanks for the answer. So for raking it would be better to redirect the index.php as i understand?  The issue we have is that we use Os-class as our platform, and even if i set a new directory index sitehome.php and make a 301 redirect, our site breaks down and some functionality does not work..

Dear moz community

I have been analyzing the websites that rank in top 20 for our target keywords. All of the top 20 sites except us have their websites re directing to websites.com/target keyword. This is due to probably because they have multiple city's and one of the target keywords term is cityname + word.

My question is and idea -  make a 301 to our www.website.com to /city-keyword and start linking to that page with new links.

Would that bring any benefit? Seems that it's a very strong ranking signal. Any threats that I must take into account? We currently rank as #9

I would try to check their back link profile, either with moz or majestic. What type of links they have what you do not. How do they rank in this category in regards to their back link profile?

I would also make sure your own internal linking is correct as double content issues sometimes spread quite a bit of your link juice. (if you have index.php the directs have been done  also that your www has a redirect to your domain or the other way around depending  on your configuration)

Hello, we found recently quite a big error  our index.php file had no canonical tag nor was a 301 redirect. So we put a canonical tag to it that it's the main www.examle.com duplicate . Now is there any difference in regards to link juice or Google 301 vs canonical tag ? I read that moz did a 301 from their index php.  I understand one difference is that user then can Type in the URL if no 301, but I'm interested about ranking effect of it.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Dear Moz community,

We have made a great mistake.  Looking at keyword search volumes somehow Moz showed volumes for two keywords which only differentiate by an  '**s (plural) as same. **Now we optimized our internal links (all links have the keyword) for the singular word.

Now looking at other search volume estimations from competitors we see, that the plural has 5 times bigger volume.

Our issue: If we change some of the category links now to another keyword, we will loose our ranking with the singular word. Correct?

If we do not change any of our internal links, we will never rank in top 6 with the keyword. (currently singular is 6 and plural is 15)

What would you reccomend?

Dear, Moz community

We are an online advertising website / direcotry. Lately we discovered that our website due to technical error was in English rather than Spanish and was not ranking in the local Spanish google.es at all. After changing the main language we quickly climbed to 2nd page with rankings in google.es .

**My question is on top of regular SEO (Link building, content, blog) what could we do to help us rank quicker in local google.es. **

The same keyword ranks in google.com as #3 but not in Spain. Should we put in the effort to work with local directories? Google MyBusiness is not an option as we are not a bricks and mortar business.

Hello,

has anyone got an idea then? We get follow link we put rel=nofollow - is it better hat follow vs follow or for google, it still looks like exchange?

Dear Moz Community,

We are operating in a niche market, where there are not so many content marketing options. What we are left with are link exchanging with relevant sites that are on the same topic but to not directly compete with us.

Now we know that if we link back to site A and site a links back to us - for google this is not a very good link.

But, some of the sites we are exchanging links with, do not know the term follow vs no follow links.

My question - if your link is to site A is a no follow link but they give us a follow link - does it mean thats a better option than a follow vs follow.

Thanks for help!