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Hi I’ve got a site that is ranking #2 in my area for my chosen keyword but the site  is in need of an expansion and overhaul its only one page at the moment and to rank for more keywords its  need to be expanded.

Or another option is I  do own another domain and I was thinking of maybe instead of overhauling the new site launching that as a sister company aimed more at the corporate market, as my first site is a bit more alternative in domain name and content.

The thing is i'm not sure how this will affect my SEO they will be on the same CBlock and be offering similar services.

Well thats the odd thing the links to the old page were returning 404 page not found error so that and the very low page authority led me to believe a 301 redirect was needed

ah right the reason I suggested the 301 to them is after the permalink was changed moz showed its page authority as 1. Will the 301 being on that page do any harm then?

The keyphrase i'm trying to rank them for has a moz keyword difficulty of 44% there domain authority is 29.
Since the tweaks to that page there google ranking has gone from 20 to 23 so its still very low, they were being beaten by sites with  lower domain authority, so i thought after the changes to the page they would have done a lot better by now.

I've just checked the pages source code there's not a  noindex tag and the rel=canonical points to the page.
I checked the 301 from various 301 site checker tools and its reporting working.

The existing url was changed, they use wordpress and it was done using the edit permalink option near the top of the page.

I've just checked Majestic SEO I can't see any option to look at page authority but trust flow is 16 and citation flow is 20

Hi Moz analytics suggestion to help ranking is to have a keyword or phrase in the url so I advised a client to do this they changed one of their pages urls, this page previously had a page authority of 26 since the change its gone down to 1.
I advised them that they must do a 301 from the old page but they took a few weeks to do this, would this of affected it why is it not showing up yet its been 3 weeks now, since the 301 and 5 weeks since the url change.

great thank you all

should I be using the town or city in url with my keyword or keyphrase?

So lets say I'm trying to rank for butchers in home town should i put the town in the url as well so www.website.com/butchers-in-mytown is that bad? Or would it be best to just put www.website.com/butchers?

Ok thanks I think I have to be added as manager

great thanks that works for now till they fix this bug

Often the chrome moz toolbar page analysis  doesn't load just says Please wait until the page finishes loading.

great thank you all

Well thats the odd thing the links to the old page were returning 404 page not found error so that and the very low page authority led me to believe a 301 redirect was needed