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In my experience no.  Two numbers for one business just doesn't work.When I've tried to implement this I've had trouble:

A) Getting all the NAPs to match and its not easy to get that done with just one number.

B) Convincing the client to put anything but their business number on their website.

I have a client that has a site that has had a number of people in charge of it. All of these people have very different opinions about what should be on the site itself.

When I look at their website on the server I see pages that do not have any obvious navigation to them.

What is the best way to find out the internal linking structure of a site and see if these pages truly are stranded?

No I wouldn't use article directories.

I think you should watch this whiteboard Friday:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/article-marketing-mostly-a-scam-whiteboard-friday 

Hope you find this helpful

-Anjon

O Man I enjoyed this rant! I have encountered this problem many times and it really sucks. If a client is particularly curious I offer my services to three way call the rascals!! They never have much to add and have left me waiting for many "Experts", "Google Insiders", and the like

Yup totally agree. The only thing I would add is that if your page is deleted you do have 14 days to reclaim it before its actually gone for good.

Yes you definitely can. If I search for my brand name logged in I get a result that is tagged with the google blue guy.

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When I have done google places optimization for businesses in malls I have used the general address. When I have done the verification process the clients haven't had any trouble getting their mail even if it is sent to the main mall office. I have just told them to keep an eye out for mail from Google and tell anyone who might get the mail by mistake.

Note: I live in a small town(50k) and our malls are not gigantic.

My favorites are Share Bar and Smart Youtube PRO. Otherwise we are pretty much on the same page.

Hi,

I'm not aware of individual video tutorials for tools but they do have an excellent webinar series

where they go over the tools and you can ask live questions.

Go here: http://www.seomoz.org/dp/welcome-webinars

You will also see a recorded webinar at the bottom of this page.

-Anjon

I would say it is a waste of time because of its unsustainable nature.

See: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/article-marketing-mostly-a-scam-whiteboard-friday

If I were you I would contact local web masters that have resource sections ( think chamber of commerce) and see if you can't get some good anchor text links to your site.

I had a similar problem with a doctor I worked with but after I got a good blended link profile ( obviously weighted towards exact match) he started to crush his competition in the serps.

Best of luck hope this helps.

You definitely can use your home address. I work at home and have a Google places account for my business. As far as loopholes go I don't know of any. You have to do standard optimization for you account with citations and reviews.

I'm not sure about Yahoo Answers specifically but building no-follow links makes your site look more natural. So it is definitely worth it.

Your clients address is probably on his website so Google finds him more relevant for the location which his business actually exists.

Can you optimize for the business's actual location? Absolutely! But, it will be much more difficult to be found relevant for a suburb if his business's actual location is in Chicago.

I totally agree, I have been asked this question a few times before and my answer is the metric for writing isn't length but are you the website owner answering the question the searcher is asking.

1. Create content that will make your users to beg for more ( Create Content For Real Users )

2. Give away information Note: I'm not a huge fan of discounting because of the bad pattern it starts with the customer

3. Use Capture Pages/ Landing Pages to boost the perceived value of getting on your list

4. Constantly ask people to subscribe

5. Run a competition

6. Run a Promotion

Answering you question above I would say that running competition's/giving stuff away won't necessarily help your conversions in your list for that you need to optimize the copy in the email you send out.

I would use Twitter to get some ideas. I.E. when I used search.twitter.com

For: "Move Phone Data" I got a lot of great ideas for possible keywords to optimize for

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Then when you have a few keywords you can use the advice from this article:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-social-media-to-get-ahead-of-search-demand

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I would definitely change the hosting before you launch the redesign.

That way you can get through any complications with a new host. When the

redesign is ready you can launch it quickly.

In the past I have been told that you can use tools like Tube Mogul to auto submit a single piece of video content to lots of different video sites and that it is not considered spam.

After watching Rand's Whiteboard Friday I am more skeptical of this tactic.

Here are my list of reasons why doing this would and wouldn't be considered spam.

This is not spam because:

These video sites are individual sites with an individual user base.

This is spam because:

Google does not want duplicate content of any kind in the SERPs.

I leaning towards spam but have seen this be very effective in the local space.

So I'm torn.