If you are using niche specific directories I think they will be fine.

The directories you need to stay away from are sites like freeSEOdirectory.info

Do your research and see if the site is active, if they have quality content, if they have an approval process on new business owners been added.

Probably not wise to hide the business address, it might impact on how it ranks from a local point of view.

The only reason I can see someone would want to hide an address is if they wanted to shut down a location or move a location.

Hi,

Algos do change around the world, different things can be seen in different markets.

For example Google will favour .com.au domains in the Australian market because it is country specific TLD's.

Sure you can GEO target the domain via webmaster tools yet it will not be as powerful.

Also country specific links will work in your favour and copy which meets the users language for your area.

Do some TLD's have more spamy things going on? Yes I agree some areas we see that .com market Google has really been fixing it up for a long time other markets are a bit slower to move, yet with all the recent changes to the algo like Panda we are seeing all TLD's come together in a more combined sense.

Hope this helps.

Hi,

to be honest the best way to do it is not to have the same anchor text in all article syndication.

Switched up the anchor text and pages you are linking too imo.

Find some variations of "Phone Recycling" which are getting traffic example "best Phone Recycling" then switch the URLS too.

Depends how large scale you are doing the articles too, if it is only 10 then I wouldn't worry but if it is 100 worry about switching link urls and anchors for sure.

My advice from working in similar project is to use native speakers, do not ever trust language converters online. Usually what we do is hire consultants to work in house, have tested a few companies yet usually better results come via internal work.

I have designed a few large scale SEO strategies, really you need to work with the client to see what they require.

A good strategy is:

1. If you have the money use seperate tlds for each area (also important to use language specific domains), use seprate content for each area made by local copy writers. This strategy will work best for ranking on a global stage. Ive tested it numerous times

2. If you are strapped for cash use sub folders on the domain for locations, benefit of this is that you can transfer the link juice to the sub folders.

3. I would not advise clients to use sub domains for a international marketing camapgin, I have seen first hand the damage they can make, they do not even rank in global serps, they do not pass link juice as Google treats them as a seprate domain.