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Oleg is right, you should disavow them. Google won't know (most likely) that you did them--unless your social media ID is tied to them. But, nonetheless, I would disavow them. If those links are only a small percentage of your overall links (less than 1 percent of total links) then you probably won't see any changes, and they will probably not hurt your rankings. But, if they're a large percentage of your links, then you might want to get them removed completely.

Vernon Am a little unclear, but in short believe social is a way of distributing your content and engaging & connecting on a deeper level with customers.  However every piece of content for your site will in some ways be unique hence your statement:- In order to get the most SEO benefit from your content, you should host it on your site and distribute via your social channels. Right? 50% + this would be correct, but the nuances of various social displays methods ie instagram, facebook, or twitter etc. mean there will be variances. It really depends on your customer, what they are responding to.  So responding to your queries. What are best practices? It depends on your customer - moz has alot of UGC which often come up in search and brings people to site.  Yourtea.com uses instagram, a babysitting website, effectively emailing out blog posts. Keep creating your content on your site, distribute it and aggregate it along with UGC for display on your site? Yes, if it is creating a deeper connection with customers and they and responding to it. If so, what are the SEO implications of using these tools?  Again not a straight answer, but it will be positive if the customer reaction was positive. Except for google + - where you don't need a positive response.. google gives you a leg up anyway! Not sure if that helps, as there are so many outcomes available, even in same categories there will be differences. Especially for pulling in the UGC - anything?

That should not be an issue. Just incase I would put - Updated - in front of your title. and a blurb about what it's updated with in the beginning of your description.

You're welcome, Vernon. I completely relate to what you're saying. Google entered Local with a brick-and-mortar mindset, which has left SABs a bit on the periphery all these years. I know it can be tough. Good luck in the work ahead!

Your questions can have many suggestions and little tips but by far one of the biggest ones answers this part of your question: "So what is the new purpose for our blogs in this new age of Google and ever-increasing social influence?" Produce engaging content, and be know as the authority in a certain topic and social shares, comments, and traffic will naturally come for an ever-increasing social influence. Its one of those easier said then done things. Hope this helps!

Using 2 SEO plugins can actually create conflicts with duplicate tags. Yoast SEO plugin does it all for you and it is highly recommended. But about your question, disabling the plugin won't delete the configuration (I think), so you can basically re-activate it later and have everything as it was. Removing/deleting the files of the plugin most likely will remove the configuration, but you if you are using another plugin, such as yoast, you should be good. Make sure to review the entire configuration of whatever plugin you use. Hope that helps!

Andrew while I agree with what you say, is there not a greater risk if your blog is hacked and then a hacker may gain access to the server where as on a sub-domain the blog can be on a different server?

Sigh of relief.  Thanks, Phil!

Hello VernonMack, Thanks for coming to Q&A with your question. I'm the Local SEO Associate here in the forum. I think the most important point to respond to in your post is this one. You write: Using the actual physical address, seems to be what google would prefer, but the address is actually on the outskirts of the city and would mean that competitors that have addresses closer to the city center would show up before us. It isn't so much a matter of Google's preference, but a matter of adhering to their guidelines which specifically state that you must use your real physical address. Unfortunately, this means that businesses likes yours on the borders of major cities do not have the strength to overpower the rankings of competitors actually located within the big cities. As you can imagine, this is a very common issue for all local businesses located just outside of metropolitan locations. Google will always view you as most relevant to the city in which you are located, so for your company, that will be El Cajon - not San Diego. I cannot recommend attempting to mash up the city and zip of the two different locales. You can, of course, create content on your website about any work you do within San Diego, but should not expect this to take precedence over your actual physical location. I truly sympathize with the wish to compete for the big search terms, but the usefulness of Google Places depends on accurate representation of data. For now, you are located in El Cajon and should correctly list yourself as such. If it becomes clear to you in future that you need to move locations into the city of San Diego, you will be doing what some other local business owners have done due to Google's handling of location. For some businesses, moving shop just isn't feasible, but for others, getting that inner city address is a must and a smart move. Hope this helps, and good luck!

I'd go for &. I optimized a page for "Canada & New England Cruises" some years back. The results were: canada and new england cruises = 24th of 6,300,000 results canada & new england cruises = 32nd of 7,660,000 results This indicates to me that Google probably knows the difference.

The ones saying it's long are including the site name. So in the WP plug-in, you're only typing in your title -- Best Blog Post Ever -- but how it's displayed is -- Best Blog Post Ever | Example.com -- and that's what the SEOmoz tool is picking up as your entire title tag.