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I read that if I want successful local SEO campaign, I should use the same phone number in all my citations.

But some citations are local for UK and I do not need to write the phone code +44, others require to use the phone code since they are international.

Is it bad for my local SEO using 2 different numbers (with and without phone code) and how to avoid it ?

I redirected my domain using this code in .htaccess :

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^xxxx.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.xxxx.com/$1 [R=301,L]
<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /([^/]/)index.(html?|php)(?[^\ ])?\ HTTP/
RewriteRule ^(([^/]/)*)index.(html?|php)$  http://www.xxxx.com/$1  [R=301,L]</ifmodule>

A day after I did it,  got an error in GWMT  "Google can't find your site's robots.txt" and my homepage disappeared from the result pages.

When I try to open Google cache of the homepage I got an error 404.

I generated new robots.txt, uploaded it , now the error doesnt show but still my homepage is not in the serps. Its been 3 days.  What should I do ?

Thanks in advance

"Google can't find your site's robots.txt" error? - Pro ...

Hello,

I got duplicate content issue on my home page :

examplesite.com
examplesite.com/index.html

Those page urls are with duplicate content.

If  in index.html i use 301 redirect like that :

Header( "HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" );
Header( "Location: http://examplesite.com" );
?>

would i loose any page authority  ?

sorry for the newbie question

I read that if I want successful local SEO campaign, I should use the same phone number in all my citations.

But some citations are local for UK and I do not need to write the phone code +44, others require to use the phone code since they are international.

Is it bad for my local SEO using 2 different numbers (with and without phone code) and how to avoid it ?