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Miss Thumann, My rule of thumb is to deem all content not to be yours, read up on your subject from more than one site and then write your own informed content. I work for a large Industrial Products and Services Company and often carry out spot checks on content which doesn't rank highly on Google. I then send emails to anyone stealing our technical content and ask them politely to take the content down as we own the intellectual property rights to the articles. If nothing happens I send an email to our Intellectual property rights company who then proceed to get the domain withdrawn until the changes have been made. In the eyes of Google new content is good content and it's clever algorithms can soon tell a clone page. Google doesn't care if it's public or not it cares if it's duplicate. I hope this helps in some way.

Totally agree with this from our experience - always, always, always use a single site if possible but if they are radically different businesses then it can work but there are annoyances on route.

Thank you all for your answer's. I agree, 52 is not low. I'll be leaving the link as is.

Wow, thank god!

Yes - you'll want to keep your blog on the same subdomain for SEO purposes. www.domain.com/blog/ is great. blog.domain.com is less great. www.differrentdomain.com is the worst option. What is the reason for using this website platform again? Is there anything stopping you from using a different website software, such as Wordpress or Squarespace? Unless there's something keeping you stuck to that software (long term contract, or shopping cart/order functionality, or other things that their software does that you can't easily replace), then I'd generally suggest to look into alternatives that have better support for SEO & other digital marketing concerns. Yes, that would require some website design effort as well as migrating content. It may even mean you'd have to change URLs, which can also create SEO headaches. So it may not be worth it all, just to fix the URL. But - it's really silly that they don't offer this, and their suggestions about tagging make it appear that they're not very savvy with SEO concerns that affect business owners. That's kind of a lengthy non-answer, so I apologize. If you want to post specific URLs or website software here, that context would be helpful in helping you make a decision.

You read my mind!

Thanks Matt, I'll take a look and see if thats the page.

Best of luck, feel free to send me an email (or message on here) if you need me to go any further into detail.

Matt, You're a life saver. I get it now:) Thank you so very much.

Happy to be of help PS thank you Miriam

Hahaha, yeah, not my personal choice of reading material, either.