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A client is thinking of implementing: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/visitor-social-network-login-status-google-analytics, but he has 10 different facebook accounts for each vertical.

Does anyone know if this will disrupt the social tracking?

Does anyone have clear instructions for how to do this? Do we need to set up a separate GWT account for each subdomain? I've tried using the URL removal tool, but it will only allow me to remove URLs indexed under my domain (i.e. domain.com not subdomain.domain.com)

Any help would be much appreciated!!!

Thank you. How would you best test if Google can read the copy included in a javascript file?

Would you just use a text browser as mentioned?

Is some Javascript SEO friendly?

I know that Google Webmaster Guidelines states you should avoid the use of Javascript, (http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769), but does any one know if Google can read some Javascript or generally not?

Basically, if you were a brand, you weren't really affected by Panda. There is quite a bit of discussion around 'branded searches' as a main indicator of whether a site is a brand or not.

For example, if you look in adwords keyword tool for searches around macy's, youll see people are looking for 'macys home' 'macy's boots,' 'macys furniture.'

So, if there isn't equivalent content, you'd just 404 the pages to avoid the bounce?

I know that branded searches are a large component of whether sites were hit by Panda or not, and I wonder if moving forward, I should always include the name of my site (domain) in the name of the product.

For example, if I have a product with a unique name such as 'history maps' should I change the name to include my brand name, i.e '[domain] history maps'? Or, if users search for the  unique product name, is that sufficient?

SeoMoz is a bit behind GWT, especially for smaller sites. GWT is a more accurate measure of your backlinks.

We are considering experimenting with this as a Panda solution (worked for hubpages), that's why we don't want to put it in subfolders. We can't move to an entirely new domain, so are considering experimenting with subdomains.

I understand there is quite a bit of disagreement about whether subdomains work or not, but we want to try it.

The content topics are different (beauty vs asthma).

Choose one site. 301 re-direct all content from the site you want to remove to the new site.

Make sure to re-direct to each corresponding page (don't re-direct to all URLs to the home page).

Thank you for your feedback. I agree with you, I know subfolders are better. But, if you had to choose one of the above options, what would you choose?

We have quite a bit of content we are considering subdomaining.

There are about 13 topic centers that could deserve their own subdomain, but there are about 2000 original articles that we also want to subdomain. We are considering

a) putting the 13 centers (i.e. babies.domain.com, acne.domain.com, etc) and the 3000 articles (on a variety of topics) on one subdomain

b) putting the 13 centers on their own subdomain and the remaining 3000 articles on their own subdomain as well (14 subdomains total)

What do you think is the best solution and why?

We have several old pages on our site that we want to get rid of, but we don't want to 404 them since they have decent traffic numbers.

Would it be fine to set up a 301 re-direct from all of these pages to our home page? I know the best option is to find an equivalent page to re-direct to, but there isn't a great equivalent.

Looks although ehow was hit by Panda 2.0, its traffic has increased back to previous levels. Does anyone know of an article / study that goews over what ehow did.

It seems that primarily large sites were hit by Panda, but does any one know of / own a small site that was hit by Panda?

I believe I saw a study put out one time that showed that recognized brands have higher engagement metrics than non-branded sites, but I can't seem to find it.

Can anyone point me in the direction of such a study?