Greek language distinctiveness
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Hello,
i am facing the below problem and want your help. I will give an example for you to understand. The problem with the Greek language is that in or words we have tones above a letter in the most words. I will present now which the problem is. When you want to write dissertation the right way is "πτυχιακές εργασίες" and this is the most important service we offer the problem is that people are searching using the same keyword but without the tones like : "πτυχιακες εργασιες" . If you see monthly searches in keyword planner the difference in volume is huge. Also in rankings for the first one i am on place 2 but for the second one i am on place 3. The problem is that i cannot have the grammatically wrong phrase in my page title and also in my content so what should i do? The same problem is almost on all keywords where people are searching without a tone or searching the same phrase using English characters like "ptyxiakes ergasies". I have fully analyzed the problem.
Please give a hand
thanks in advance
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I think you're doing the right thing by optimizing for the grammatically correct version of the phrase. Google undoubtedly considers the phase without tones a semantic equivalent. If I were you, I'd focus instead on earning more and more authoritative links to the page so I have a better chance of outranking the ones that are optimized for the term without proper tones. If you can, try to get links with link text that excludes the tones.
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