I'm looking at implementing social sharing buttons throughout a site that I'm working on.

I've souced the icons from one of the well known providers however when I test the pages with Firebug I get this:

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| Version | File Size | Transfer Size |
| | | |
| Home Page With Social Media Buttons | 1.02MB | 487.7kB |
| Home Page Without Social Media Buttons | 238.3kB | 218.8kB |

As you can see the buttons alone have a rather alarming impact on the file/transfer size.

I want to reduce the size, has anyone got any ideas/been here before?

Justin

Have you checked Google Webmaster Tools, they now report penalisation I believe.

I want to check a specific word, Google translate doesn't seem to do much apart from guess no matter what you put in.

Anyone got any ideas?

I want to check which words Google is aware of, I remember Danny Dover talking about "SeoMoz.org" and theorising that Google couldn't understand that SEO was in the URL because it didn't understand that "Moz" was a word and therefore couldn't seperate the 2 words "SEO and "Moz" out.

Any ideas, I thought about using Google Instant but as it comes up with "seomoz" when i type in "seom" so am assuming that this detail is taken from a diffrent source.

Justin

HI Rand,

Thanks for answering.

I think that I will hit the top sites with manual submission and see how I go.

My assumtion was that the PAD file should stay the same, so automation was acceptable, not sure if this is actually true or not.  Would you advise varying the PAD file between submissions (I would always vary submission text and anchor links when submitting to directories)?

Justin

This might help see the thinking on SEOmoz domain name http://www.seomoz.org/blog/answering-hard-seo-questions-whiteboard-friday