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Lots of people ask why they are not getting into Google News. It is hard to get into Google News.   I would like to be in Google News but I don't meet their strict and numerous guidelines.   You can find them here.  There are journalistic, technical, content and other types of requirements. https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40787?hl=en

That's no problem at all, as long as the listings are clearly marked as ads and links include the nofollow attribute! This is spelled out pretty clearly in the updated "link scheme" document if you need support: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en "Here are a few common examples of unnatural links that violate our guidelines: Text advertisements that pass PageRank Advertorials or native advertising where payment is received for articles that include links that pass PageRank"

Hi Gavin! Thanks for the question. The longest a keywords ranking data should be in a pending status is a week, and this is only if you add a keyword(s) right after an update has just happened. I'd be happy to look into this further for you. Can you send a ticket into help[at]moz.com with the campaign this is in regards to? You can write Attn: Sam in the subject line and I'll keep an eye out for it. Hope to hear from you soon! Best, Sam Moz Helpster

I don't know of one, but internally I keep what I call a "word map" in excel - where I have columns for state, adjectives like "best, top", etc etc. And I tend to create them from scratch each time for each client, but will just cut and pastes from client to client when certain columns relate. -Dan

Seems these listing are being syndicated to multiple outlets like examiner and others .... and all of these listings are duplicates of each other. What can you do for your client is to minimize the mix of duplication by adding a unique  content and useful for the user. (check zillow property pages they are doing an extremely good job with the data they are collecting)