You can go to

Acquisition>referralsto find out where they might be coming from.I can imagine a lot of the visits are from GA code ghosting which is from sites like free-share-buttons.com etc. these can be filtered out of your reports etc. if it bugs you. Its a bit of a problem of late and bugs the heck out of me. Let me know if it is a lot of spammy looking referrals

Hello,

First off - does your old page have value? this could be via links to it, or via the content etc.  you may find it its adding value to your site removing it can change how your site works but that is all down to perspective and if you are improving the content aka. value the point is null. realistically is you set up correct 301 any old links etc. will resolve the issue. The problem you may have with 301 if the old page is about e.g. cars and the new page is about bikes the old link profile wont make sense, so be aware of that.

TL:DR

It's preference the short one is as long as you correctly 301 and structure it correctly on the site you'll be fine.

Hope this helps.

The most straight forward way is - do nothing: Google's pretty good at finding back links and will find them at some point

Now you can always fetch as Google or submit the link to Google plus or twitter which can speed it up but its is not ideal for larger volumes of links so really just wait it out.

As a Firefox user I'm looking forward to the update. Understandable why you've done what you've done though.

Hi,

Not sure what you need but if you need to delete a website from your webmaster tools you select the tick box and then go to delete(top) simple as.

If you need to disavow you go to that section or - http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/how-to-disavow-links-0c56a26f

Or are you trying to shut down your account completely ?

Hi Karen,

I wonder if you're over thinking this a bit. Lets look at what Google's job is, its to bring the best result back for a users inquiry. Now there are some exceptions to that (like adult content and some pay day loans) but for the most part that rule is true.

Now the question isn't what Google thinks its what the user thinks is there a difference in the user typing 'cheap product' compared to 'product' ? There is going to be difference between the two searches because the user wants to see different results for each one. You can always test this out by going to Google and trying different searches you can then double up your theory by going to ad-words and looking into search volume between the two.

I hope that helps a bit.

Hi Nicole,

Just to mention first off my comment's more regarding sub domains more than Hubspot specifically. I'll try to answer your question directly:

Does one lose any credibility or get diluted by putting said blog on a subdomain rather than in a subdirectory folder?

You may loose credibility (or gain if you put it on a sub folder) by the fact a subdomain could look 'new' compared to an existing website but to be honest its nominal in the big picture. As for credibility that's more for the users point of view than Google's (unless you're planning on being very naughty with the site) but with good content and branding this shouldn't be a problem.

There are oodles of topics on subdomains vs. subfolders out there for you to research but try not to over think it too much as it really all boils down to what you want out of it. You can over come most of the problems you feel you may have. Link diluting etc. is only really a problem if you're planning on posting the same content on both domains as they would literally competing with one another but if its unique and useful info they it should rank on its own merit (with some basic SEO/SEM)

If you are unsure or feel inexperienced I'd recommend putting it on your site then you will get a boost from your blog (see Moz example above) without as much work, so unless you want to distance your main site from the blog this should cover you well.

if in doubt do more research, ask more people get all the info until you feel you're all covered.

Best of luck with your blog and I hope it all goes swimmingly.