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I'm looking for a recommendation of a provider that can completely manage the submissions to Google, infoUSA, Localeze, and Axciom for a business with ~300 locations.

Anyone have a good recommendation?

To be a tad more specific I have a site that is a simple calculator utility that allows visitors to look up tire variations that are close to their current tire size.  The site was created in 2007 and has some back-links including some references in wikipedia.

My goal is to build a simple calculator that encompasses the core tools into a widget that other "car" sites can use at their sites.  My hopeful out come is to build 5-15 new inbound links from sites that will use the calculator on their sites.

Im planning on building a small utility widget that my site will distribute to related sites.  I plan on implementing this with JS and including a small anchor link back to my site.

In the new penguin world, will the possibly be destructive to my SEO efforts? Any do's or don'ts when developing a widget/badge for distribution to lets say a dozen sites?

I'm working on a recently hacked site for a client and and in trying to identify how exactly the hack is running I need to use the fetch as Google bot feature in GWT.

I'd love to use this but it thinks the robots.txt is blocking it's acces but the only thing in the robots.txt file is a link to the sitemap.

Unde the Blocked URLs section of the GWT it shows that the robots.txt was last downloaded yesterday but it's incorrect information.  Is there a way to force Google to look again?

So the real question I'm getting at is this.  Do you feel the that SEs might be evaluating the date as a sign of un-fresh content it a new page is created with a 2007 date in it?

http://www.quora.com/Are-dates-and-months-in-the-url-of-a-blog-post-detrimental-to-long-term-SEO

http://www.seobook.com/do-you-put-dates-your-urls

http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/url-configuration-wordpress/

http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/avoid-numbers-your-url/

I've come across a case where I'm asking myself what the best direction would be to go and while there is no right direction I would like to here some feedback from others.

I'm working with some great content pages all about wine.  As you probably know the difference between a 07 wine and a 95 is vastly different and up to this point I'm using the full year in the url much like this: grapesinyourtoesexample.com/2007-cellar-pod-viognier-adelaide-hills/.

What I'm worried about is my use of the year in the URL.  I feel it's very important for it to be used in the page title and on page but I'm concerned that it might be setting me back with my use of it in the url.  My concern is that search engines might be interpretting it as a datestamp rather than as a informational piece of data describing the asset.

Looking at my competitors, my content is one of the only sites using the year and in most searches for various wines my content is in the second half of the SERPs.

If you were creating this content would you use the year?  If you were working with current content would you drop the year across all of the site and implement to necessary redirects?

Just to be clear this is a client related project so my use of "my site|my content" refers to the client's content.

I wouldn't say that the advice you were given was wrong but like anything there is good ways to do things and there are always better ways to do things.

For instance lets say you are a small business with a low budget and the idea of re-working your entire site or theme isn't a viable solution.  Or maybe your site is just a single page and there isn't the need for a heading.  That said implementing an H1 as an image with appropriate alt text isn't a horrible solution.

What is not a good solution is implementing an H1 on an image just to hide overly spammy and descriptive alt text underneath the image and slide it in as an H1 on the page.

It's a lot like anything else, start by researching your competitors are work backwards.  Open Site Explorer will be your friend in this case and hopefully you will find a couple of resources that your weren't aware of.

Beyond just your competitors I also found it valuable to search for businesses in other regions/cities such as Los Angeles and San Francisco to see where they are finding citations.

Without knowing more about your site it's really hard to say.  There are a number of "right" ways to do it depending on your site architecture and site-search architecture.

I personally like the idea of having a single "Brand" page and leaving the sorting to a search experience that is "walled off" from being indexed and crawled which is something Rand covered in a WBF about two years ago.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-faceted-navigation

So the real question I'm getting at is this.  Do you feel the that SEs might be evaluating the date as a sign of un-fresh content it a new page is created with a 2007 date in it?

http://www.quora.com/Are-dates-and-months-in-the-url-of-a-blog-post-detrimental-to-long-term-SEO

http://www.seobook.com/do-you-put-dates-your-urls

http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/url-configuration-wordpress/

http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/avoid-numbers-your-url/

Im planning on building a small utility widget that my site will distribute to related sites.  I plan on implementing this with JS and including a small anchor link back to my site.

In the new penguin world, will the possibly be destructive to my SEO efforts? Any do's or don'ts when developing a widget/badge for distribution to lets say a dozen sites?