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I believe you can confirm the block via the webmaster tools also.

thats what I do, keep a mix, try to get 80%+ close to the niche.

Agreed, This is like Yahoo answers, old Google answers, or Amazon's askville.

How much are you looking to spend? High Quality = High Costs.

I agree, talk with bloggers in your niche, post your article to them in email if you can trust them enough. Public facing submission sites are too spammy.

although backlinks can, its more onpage stuff that Google hates. Otherwise everyone would be attacking their competitors

agreed, ref=canonical

I'm not seeing those either, some kinda firefox plugin? or are you logged in your account? do you own those domains?

I don't see anything wrong with just a 301..?

You shouldn't base anything off of impressions... What do you really want your customers doing?

I don't use meta keywords at all, everything seems fine. I don't want my competitors to see them too.

I have customers asking me if they should continue using Yellowbook's listing. I'm not sure how to respond.

Have you seen any benefits?

thoughts?

I don't think you'll get any penalty, but keep it below 10% of the overall picture.

I'd try to funnel them into twitter followers... can market to them in multiple ways

Any negatives to using 301 on something like this?

Interesting, never knew this. When did they change the name?

I agree with Nick, using robots.txt, meta, and obscure page url

I'd also add if I may to keep the backlinks within your niche for getting started.