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Panda seems to have effect at the domain URL level. So as long as the sites are different, as in not the same domain, then you should be fine. Would be crazy if not due to all the shared hosting accounts.

Always better to focus a page on less so that you can do more. I would have term one and then brand signals for your title tag. I would consider this the best option and just create a couple more pages. Unless they are extremely extremely close keywords like blue widget and blue widgets.

You might want to post the job on a site like authenticjobs.com (high quality) but it will cost a couple hundred for the post. Any time I need extremely high quality that is where I go, If you dont find anything there than try posting on the jobs section on seomoz.

I am not understanding the 3 and 4. Might just want to add a "me" to your lines so I can make sure to give good advice.

I have to agree with you. We generally try to push customers to about 4 review sites Google Yelp City search And a specific vertical review site. I do think that eventually more weight will be given to google reviews simply to push business to use their service but I. Think a company would be foolish to put all eggs in the places review basket when they have such a problem with losing reviews and support.

Site wide footer links are border line. They work.... But they dint look very natural. You need more than just those.

Completely agree on the Citation point. They dont provide solid info on the places page so it makes sense that they have been pulled like mymaps were. I am just wondering about thoughts on reviews from 3rd party sites vs. reviews on Google. The approach has been to diversify your reviews to mutlple sites for rankings and also for "keeping eggs out of one basket". Wondering if many are going to switch strategy based on latest info.

I think you should probably just correct the links and try to get a bunch of natural going on. You might find that is enough without a request. And unless you were de-indexed completely you generally can fix filters but correcting whatever is keeping you in the filter.

WIth the visual update to Google Places over the past 2 days do you think that Google reviews will become a higher ranking factor as compared to 3rd party reviews. The research I have done shows that 3rd party reviews seem to correlate better with higher rankings..Any thoughts on what might be coming down the road?

Yeah, I would say all of the above could have played into factor. Your best bet is cleaning up the sub URL (might not be the main cause) the reciprocal links are really easy to pick up on so get rid of those and depending on how the link was bought, it there is anything that makes it obvious then drop it.

If you have a new domain without much link history throwing a bagillion gray/black tactics at it will generally put it on googles radar for filtering. I see that we occasional new sites that we put a bit to much promotion into. Focus on content for the first bit, get some national brand links, then if you want you can get a bit more aggressive. Just stay away from things that are easily identifiable and focus on guest posting, etc for good links.

Always better to focus a page on less so that you can do more. I would have term one and then brand signals for your title tag. I would consider this the best option and just create a couple more pages. Unless they are extremely extremely close keywords like blue widget and blue widgets.

Panda seems to have effect at the domain URL level. So as long as the sites are different, as in not the same domain, then you should be fine. Would be crazy if not due to all the shared hosting accounts.