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If they are simply bidding on your company keywords without any trademark infringements, then you can't do anything to stop them.

However, you might be able to get them in trouble if they use your trademarked brand name or slogan in their advertising copy.

More about it here.

I found this useful for blog topic creation - https://moz.com/blog/generate-100-blog-topic-ideas-in-seconds

Hope it helps you too.

Few things more I'd try to troubleshoot the issue:

• Trying to do edit slug using "quick edit" and "edit"
• See if the same issue is for all posts or just one specific post

Also, the slug will not update until you click Update button on the Edit Post screen. If you click on Permalink then edit, that will allow you to update the slug, then hit OK, but when you click on OK that will not update the permalink.

Just to clarify - do you manually edit the URL (slug) press the button "update" but the URL slug is not saving but reverting back to its prior (default) value? If that is the case, there must be something wrong with URL (not allowed symbols) or some plugin issue messing it up. I would try to disable plugins one by one and see if any of them is causing the issue.

Hi!

I'm in the process of doing similar and I also working on a tshirt store peacefulconquest.com (work still in progress). From what I have reasearched (and what Veronica already said) it won't negatively affect your main website ranking since you are simply targeting new keywords for your site. You are not, so to say "dilluting" your existing website since your new content is published on your blog (different URLs).

However, I would still try to produce content for your blog that is at least remotely linked to your main topic since that would also help to boost your sales. What's the point of increased traffic if it is unrelated to what you do and doesnt convert?

Just to clarify - do you manually edit the URL (slug) press the button "update" but the URL slug is not saving but reverting back to its prior (default) value? If that is the case, there must be something wrong with URL (not allowed symbols) or some plugin issue messing it up. I would try to disable plugins one by one and see if any of them is causing the issue.

Few things more I'd try to troubleshoot the issue:

• Trying to do edit slug using "quick edit" and "edit"
• See if the same issue is for all posts or just one specific post

Also, the slug will not update until you click Update button on the Edit Post screen. If you click on Permalink then edit, that will allow you to update the slug, then hit OK, but when you click on OK that will not update the permalink.