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No clear answer to that question. I would review why and where google is pulling the information from.  Then try and track down the issue from there. Here is a great article on it which goes into a deep dive.  https://moz.com/blog/why-wont-google-use-my-meta-description Hope that assists.

Hi! Do you have any news about this issue?

I agree with Miriam, make sure that you have enough citation strength/listing withing for each location, as well as making sure you're listing is linking to your individual location page on your site. This is by far the biggest differentiator in my experience.

Hey There, Your question is a great one, but unfortunately, the answer is likely known only to a few engineers at Google. Google's choice to vary from 10 packs to 7 Packs to 3 Packs and now Snack Packs for various industries over the years has long been a matter of speculation. There have even been mind-boggling times when only a one-box would show (and usually a spammy one at that) for queries for which there was plenty more data. Why is this? Some suggest it has to do with the competitiveness of a query in a given industry or geography. Others have suggested at times that Google was making a conscious choice to reduce the local footprint in the SERPs. What has been standard through all this is fluctuation. Google is constantly testing what they feel delivers the most value to users and makes most sense for Google. There is no known magic number for how Google determines which type of pack treatment a query deserves, including whether it deserves any type of pack at all. 3 Packs are tough. Giving an entire city/industry only 3 spots can feel kind of miserly and frustrating for everyone who isn't numbers 1-3. It means having to work harder, longer and with more creativity if you want to be among the chosen few. My personal view of this is that all pack results must be viewed as possibly transitory and as a test by Google, because they can change overnight, both in terms of the pack number and in the order of rank. One thing to remember here - don't forget to educate clients regarding the user-as-centroid phenomenon. There can be some hope in this, knowing that a client's customers are likely seeing different local pack results based on their physical location, again, both in terms of pack number and order of rank. I've trained people just one city away from me and have personally experienced how totally different their SERPs can be from mine for identical queries. Hyperlocal optimization and long-tail optimization may both be important considerations here. Sorry not to have an authoritative answer to your question, but I hope these thoughts help form a good mindset for you to share with clients.

@highwayfive, you can actually get this information from SEMRush, using their keyword difficulty tool. Here's a screenshot for "dog food" showing that there is a News box. http://imgur.com/NPjQMNA

If you search for very basic terms using this tool you should find quite a few relevant ones that you're looking for... http://blumenthals.com/google-lbc-categories/search.php?q=dog&val=hl-gl%3Den-UK%28PfB%29%26ottype%3D1 If you need lists to download there are several on this page: http://blumenthals.com/Google_LBC_Categories

Yes, a new website should claim its brand name on social media immediately, whether or not that improves its rankings. If you don't get your @companyname, someone else will.

Thanks - Seb although we haven't recieved any sort of warning in GWT which is odd and it hasn't effected all the keywords.

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues for me - though Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is You! has a certain charm about it haha

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I don't mean to self promote, but we do some pretty nifty training sessions and workshops. There's a taster of what goes on here: Some training We're only just up the road If budget is an issue, we do the same courses / workshops in Bristol and Somerset for enter[rise agencies, which are part funded by the gov't. Let me know if you need more details.

Clever!!

I didn't get on with directorypress.  I just couldn't see the point in building a directory on top of wordpress when it then overtakes any wordpress like functionality. I'd agree with Brent that it is worth a look - I know others who like it. However for me it was just a convoluted way to go about things with a not great end result.

Hey, just wanted to let you know that I've made my own solution available on Codecanyon.  I'm sure it will need some customization for most SEO's, but it works great for me...Hate to publicize on here about my own product, so dont want to share a link, but PM me if you're interested.

I am waiting for someone to draw one with a monitor flying at him. 

I've seen more of this post-Caffeine. Now that Google is crawling/indexing faster, site outages can do a lot more damage. Being down for 3 weeks is definitely bad, and it's very likely you'll lost ranking. It's rare to see any kind of manual penalty, and you should recover - it usually just takes time. You've got to get Google back in action - XML sitemaps (if you don't have them), building up some new links, etc. This is a quick confirmation from 2006 - I'd say the problem is much worse now: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/server-outages-lead-to-drop-in-search-engine-rankings/3946/ The bigger argument is just that being down 3 weeks is a lot of lost sales, potentially. To not notice you're down and no know where you're hosted is unacceptable for any serious online business, IMO. I'd be wary of any client who cares that little about their business, to be perfectly blunt.