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"<p dir=\"auto\">Hello everyone,</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I have a case here were I need to decide which steps to take to improve page authority (and thus SEO value) for the German pages on our site. We localized the English version into German at the beginning of 2015.</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"http://www.memoq.com\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">www.memoq.com</a> - English</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"http://de.memoq.com\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">de.memoq.com</a> - German</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">By October 2015 we implemented href tags so that Google would index the pages according to their language. That implementation has been successful. There is one issue though: At that time, all our localized pages had only \"1\" point for Page Authority (\"PA\" in the Moz bar). At the beginning we though that this could be due to the fact that localization was done using subdomains (<a href=\"http://de.memoq.com\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">de.memoq.com</a>) rather that subfolders (<a href=\"http://www.memoq.com/de\" rel=\"nofollow ugc\">www.memoq.com/de</a>). However, we decided not to implement changes and to let Google assess the work we had done with the href tags.</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Its been a while now, and still all our German pages keep having only \"1\" point for page authority. Plus we have keywords for which we rank in the top 10 in English (US Google Search), but this not the case for the translated version of the keywords for German (Germany Google search).</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">So my question basically is:</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Is this lack of page authority and SEO value rooted in the fact that we used subdomain instead of subfolder for the URL creation. If so is it likely that Page Authority for German pages and SEO value will increase if I change the structure from subdomains to subfolders?</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Or is it that the problem in PA is rooted somewhere else that I am missing?</p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">I appreciate your feedback.</p>\n"
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