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Does this help? It appears you can run them on Pages and in Apps, but not on timelines. Also, the rules for businesses are different than for individuals. This article for Search Engine Watch is dated August 29, 2013 and is a good synopsis of the current guidelines. There are also links to some other articles that should help at the bottom of the Search Engine Watch page. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2291661/Facebook-Revamps-Contest-Rules-for-Businesses This is section E: Promotions of the Facebook User Guide https://www.facebook.com/page_guidelines.php Promotions 1. If you use Facebook to communicate or administer a promotion (ex: a contest or sweepstakes), you are responsible for the lawful operation of that promotion, including: a. The official rules; b. Offer terms and eligibility requirements (ex: age and residency restrictions); and c. Compliance with applicable rules and regulations governing the promotion and all prizes offered (ex: registration and obtaining necessary regulatory approvals) 2. Promotions on Facebook must include the following: a. A complete release of Facebook by each entrant or participant. b. Acknowledgement that the promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook. 3. Promotions may be administered on Pages or within apps on Facebook. Personal Timelines must not be used to administer promotions (ex: “share on your Timeline to enter” or “share on your friend's Timeline to get additional entries” is not permitted). 4. We will not assist you in the administration of your promotion, and you agree that if you use our service to administer your promotion, you do so at your own risk.

I agree with Jesse and Jonathan that you should usually have your website connected to your blog in some sort of "brand.com/blog" fashion. The only situation where I would argue different is if plan on creating a lot of content and you are imagining your blog as a movement or other subculture, that will market your brand.  For example the company Citrix blogs at WorkShifting.com, which is their blog about working "outside of the office" which overall helps them since all of their tools are based around work shifting.

Search Office Space's answer nailed it.

I did not test all combinations, but I did determine that it's faster to select the subset that your visitors will use and not to load the myriad of fluff icons. Best, Christopher

Read out loud what you just wrote "12 footers on the bottom of each page" and "these sites are part of the same large company but are not related in any way".  I am frankly surprised you get traffic from this as if I see 12 footers and many of those are non related to the present site that would not be useful to me as a user. Forget traffic referrals.  Does that traffic convert?  Figure out if is does, the "considerable traffic" may not convert at all and so while you have less traffic, it does not impact your bottom line.  You may also find a middle way from just deleting everything etc. Generally site wide links are not useful or can be ignored so you are really not doing yourself any favors.  It may be that if you update, you rank better in Google and get traffic that way.

Thanks for the question Penny! The Full Rankings report will only show you the rankings data since the last update, but you can download a csv export of the entire rankings history at any time. It generally takes a couple of hours to generate, but it'll have all of the rankings data we've collected since the campaign was created. You can do this by heading over to the ranking page and choosing the "entire keyword ranking history to CSV" from the drop down menu. http://screencast.com/t/6TdAdTJYe Hope this helps! Best, Sam Moz Helpster

When questions like this pop up I feel its best to reference Rand's intro to SEO slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/randfish/introduction-to-seo-5003433) specifically slides 40-47 which cover site structure. Separate sub-domains are often viewed as separate sites so you are now building separate value identities instead of one. If it's important to you to give them all a separate blog rather than a central one with multiple authors, then you can still achieve this by simply giving them separate sub-directories. Sub-domains will not pass value the same way, and will be focused on different content and not associated with the main site. Back when we had popular sub-domain hosting services like Lycos this is what seperated sitea.lycos.com from siteb.lycos.com and the same sort of thing would happen to your blogs. If you want them to self promote and the SEO value and content association of the mainsite to flow down to them (and theirs to flow back up) structure it as www.yoursite.com/blog/author1 for each author and you'll be good to go!

Kentaro is correct. Google does have a page layout aspect to its algorithm.  The known aspects are the frequency and placement of those ads.  If a page is too ad heavy, or if the ads are placed in a way that destroys the user experience you can rank lower. If your page looks like this you could have problems: ads ads ads ads content ads ads ads ads

yes you can. Log in as the business and add communities to participate in. If you look at my example above you can see that we post in the star wars community allot. For us it's fun getting to be creative with others who have the same interests.

Unfortunately, there are no specifics any of us could give you in that regard. The results (number of visitors) you'll get from x number of links depends on many factors, including your keywords, onsite optimization, link quality, etc. The best way you could estimate would be to take each keyword and determine: How many exact match searches are their on Google for this keyword each month? If we achieve a #X ranking, what CTR could we expect? The answer to those two questions will tell you how many visitors you might expect from the keyword. Then you'll need to analyze your competitors keywords and estimate how many and what type of links you'll need to achieve the ranking you want. Together, that will give you a very rough estimate of how much traffic you might expect from your link building efforts.