VAs, if you utilize Google Places for your own business listing, or for your clients' listings, you'll definitely want to read and understand the implications behind a current article explaining the new Places policy requiring businesses that do not serve customers at their location to HIDE the address in their Places listing. There's a very detailed writeup over at SEO Moz about the policy change, and the impact it may/may not have on small businesses by Miriam Ellis of Solas Web Design: Why You May Need To Hide Your Google Places Address ASAP

The penalty for maintaining a visible address in your Google Places listing if you don't serve clients IN your home office location? Your Places listing may be removed entirely.

From the article:
On March 22nd the official Google Places Quality Guidelines were updated to include the following language:
If you don't receive customers at your location, you must select the "Do not show my business address on my Maps listing" option within your dashboard. If you don't hide your address, your listing may be removed from Google Maps.

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On a side note, if you and your clients are not yet listed in Google Places you will find more information and the opportunity to create a free business listing, here.

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I read this yesterday. Quite an interesting article and great information to know.

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Lee Drozak
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This doesn't bother me much for a couple reasons.

The first is because I don't want my address displayed anyway.

The second is because I have own site. Its devoted to gaming but there is something I have found.... My site was on the first page under my seach terms within a month. If your site is attractive, it has easy to search kewords, ranking by google wont matter because the people who visit will push you to the top. take part in forums and make sure you have the site link in your signature, that sort of thing.