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HI We are redesiging our site currently - at the moment we have a low key blog on the site which is pretty well hidden (to be changed with redesign) but is hosted as brand.com/blog name.  I have been advised it might be a good idea on relaunch to have the blog as a standalone blog linking back to our main site but also having a graphic on the site that promotes the blog.  The blog does not currently have the same name as the website so would work as a standalone site but I understand it would not have any seo benefits from the original site.  I have seen on previous posts here that the best practise is domain.com/blog but wondered if anyone thought different? Hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks, Penny

Hi I am working on a site that is to relaunch later on this year - is best practise for the old urls (of which there are thousands) to write a piece of code that will cover all of the urls and redirect them to the new home page or to individually redirect each url to its new counterpart on the new site.  I am naturally concerned about user experience on this plus losing our Google love we currently have but am aware of the time it would take to do this individually.  Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

We are debating a redesign of a travel site and wondering whether having social sharing buttons including Pinterest and Facebook above each image would slow down site speed and therefore have a negative impact on our rankings.  We are deciding between having the icons above each image or just in the side bar of all pages.  Many thanks, Penny

Hi, I am doing an seo clean up of our site - we have about 12 footers on the bottom of each page plus an internal site map including core keywords.  Most footers go to internal sites and some go to external sites which are replicated on those external sites linking back to ours. (these sites are part of the same large company but are not related in any way)  Are these bad from an seo ranking perspective? Do the look like spam? We get considerable traffic from one of the external footers that is replicated on their site so need to weigh up what the best option is whether to keep the traffic or to loose it as part of the seo clean up. thanks

Should blogs that are part of an overall content site be on separate sites and link in or is it ok to promote them as content on the home page of the site and take users off to their own url to view the site.  Is this good practise for seo?

I look after the search side of a decorating website on which we carry a large amount of advertising from external brands as that is our business model.  Do you know if we would get penalised for having too much advertising - would it be deemed to affect the user experience?  Many thanks for your help on this.

I am looking to set up a google + page for a decorating ideas website, should I create a business page or a community and where do circles fit in to this. Many thanks for your help I have seen how to set up but not sure where communities and circles fit in for business sites. thanks

I am looking to justify to a pubilsher the cost outlay to hire an agency to do white hat link building for me as we do not have time.  (the site is fully optimised but we lack the inbound links our competitors have) - is there a way I can explain in terms of numbers ie page impressions that if we build for eg 10k high quality anchor text links into our site we will get x thousand more page impressions as our rankings in the search engines will increase?  Just need a justification before the budget is allocated.