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I agree with Moosa. I have not seen a difference at all. It gets generalized to (XXX) XXX-XXXX in my experience. That's how I prefer to provide it. But if you have to do it either of the other formats, for example when you have a Toll Free number or something else, I prefer to use the hyphenated version. The one with periods is the least preferred. Also keep in mind how browsers, VOIP applications like SKYPE, Google Talk etc interpret these numbers on webpages when you are browsing for you to click to call.

I know there are 5 other responses so far and mine is the 6th one. Honestly, I would not link out to them. I would not create a connection between all your guest posts and you...it does sort of a web-ring which used to exist over a decade ago. These will clearly get seen as reciprocal links. If I were you and I had domain authority, I would not do it. If you want to, why not share them on your Facebook page. Tweet them. Whatever else makes sense...except linking directly from the site where all those guest posts are linking to.

Some people may disagree....but I would rather have those links be as one-way links instead of reciprocal links.

Considering what's done is done and the point that your old domain is penalized, can you possibly do/try any of the following ?

1. Ignore the fact that those links are appearing in your backlink profile for the new domain. See whether this new website works/ranks.

2. If it doesn't (at all), can you possibly disavow those "article marketing" links for the old domain and do nothing at all for the new domain (since those links are not really linking to your new domain).

Coming back to point 1, what I'd like to ask is, other then seeing those links in GWT, are there any other red flags that you are seeing in terms of not ranking, any penalty messages, unnatural links warning on the new or was there any messages on the old domain when you got penalized ?

You could also use Xenu Link Sleuth or Screaming Frog SEO.

I think that's a little too much. Slow down. Revisit your link profile. Do a complete audit for yourself and the competition. See what you really need. Revisit your On-page and then fill the gaps. That's a little too many unless you are talking about an authority site/brand with considerable customer base, traffic, audience to justify this as natural. Are these all same kinds of links/citations ? Blogs/Blog comments/articles/press releases/guest posts etc etc ?

Chad

I just checked your website and no, it's incorrect. All pages of your website have the canonical set to the homepage, which is like telling Google to 301 redirect all your pages to the homepage. I would recommend to remove it/fix it right away.

Is this a wordpress based site ? What CMS are you using ? How were you able to get domain.com/sample and domain.com/sample.html be the same page ? Either way, canonical tag is the correct solution in this case. There's no need for a 301 and if you do 301 redirects, you are not really fixing the issue caused by your CMS System.

I would therefore strongly advise to use the canonical tag. That's the intended use of that tag.

You might already have this, but http://www.awwwards.com/ is a pretty decent source. If your site is responsive design/HTML5, you could also submit to HTML5 Galleries and if it's an exclusive/custom design on a CMS, you could also submit to that CMS's galleries, eg Wordpress and so on. Just some idea starters, I hope I ignited some ideas in your head

I think it makes sense to let the user select the currency and see the changed price or use the geolocation to automatically display that price. It would be a considerable amount of time and effort to try and make the different set of pages unique, so in short it does not make sense to make different urls for different currencies. However, if you plan in the future that you are trying to translate the content in other languages as well, then it's a different story. In that case you are targeting different countries and it's best served by country level domains for the countries you are targeting. I hope this helps.

Chad

It can't be added in the template file, hard-coded for it to be the same tag on every page. Looks like this piece of code was added in the header template file.

For homepage, default.aspx this code is fine:

http://www.tisbest.org" />

However, on other pages, like http://www.tisbest.org/buy-charity-gift-cards.aspx, the canonical should be rel="canonical" href="http://www.tisbest.org/buy-charity-gift-cards.aspx" />

I hope this helps.

In my opinion, your page is over-optimized for your primary keyword. I would look into some variant keywords you can optimize this page for. Here is what I see as "Over-Optimized" for that exact keyword:

Page Title = OK, could use some customization
Description = OK
Breadcrumbs = Exact Keyword along with the Exact Title Tag (Sort of okay, I'd say)
H1 Tag = Exact Keyword. As well as a Title Tag to your H1 Tag ? That's too much. That's clearly there for SEO and SEO Only.

In that 1 paragraph of copy, you have the same keyword in Bold, twice. The image with a good filename and alt tag is okay.

What I'd look into is, what are some other long tail keywords that you can optimize your page for. That would help you in 2 ways.

1. Remove the Over-Optimization
2. Help you rank for that low(er) hanging fruit.

Unrelated to this keyword/page, but overall:

You don't need the following tags on every single page:

I hope this helps.

I would analyze the top 10 competition not just your head keywords but also some long tail keywords and find opportunities.

If you look at your rankings for keywords like, I think it's also about making sure your pages are properly optimized. See your SERP ranking for https://www.google.com/search?q=medical+plaques

I would recommend using the http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/on-page-keyword-optimization/new tool here at SEOMoz to identify some oppurtunities and strengthen your on-page.

As far as Off-page is concerned, I would recommend you to be very careful and do some strategic link building instead of the outright link buying. There's a considerable risk involved. What you need to do is build domain authority, not try to rank via anchor text hyperlinks. Does that make sense ?

Sounds like it's the same company, right? If yes, you could do Homepage to Homepage only. That should atleast solve the issue for the right Homepage ranking, for your brand name searches in the respective countries.

Some domain management companies let you do a 301 redirect of a domain to another domain...however they might only do domain.com to newdomain.com not specific/individual and customized redirects.

You have some great points already from Alan, Robert and Phillip. I would identify your competition as well as understand your customer. See where your target audience is and where they are. Look at how your competition is presenting themselves and getting in the face of your customer. All that you need to do is to do a better job then them. It's easier said then done, but it's possible. Think how Startup companies get to become well known. They provide a better service then somebody else.

I agree. However, if it was a media release, I would prefer to release it on my website first and then the media outlets, otherwise it's just duplicate content to me.

And yes, I agree, if it's make sense for your users, by all means, you should post it in the press/media section of your website. Whatever makes most sense.

I agree with Irving completely. I would also like to add:

1. Do your frequently link out the way you did for this website ? Do you link out to other websites that are useful to your website visitors ?

2. Similarly, the website that is linking to you with those 2 links, does every post on their website/blog have 1-2 outgoing links ? If not, then you are good.

Does that make sense ?

It depends how strong your domain authority is and how deep within a website that page is. If you are talking about the homepage, I have seen it vary from 10 minutes to 10 days, again..based on the strength and authority of the website.

If they need to be linked, you could do the nofollow as you have already done. I would also change them to brand anchor text. So in my opinion you are on the right track.

Next, I would go build some unique content on all the sites as well as some fresh natural, uncommon links from sites that are not related to you. Natural Links.

I would not worry about changing so much. These are not monster changes.

I see this page is already ranking for Fortis Watches in Top 10 in Google. I see the opportunity to optimize the page title a bit as well as working on increasing the overall authority of the domain name.

Looks like they have a brand page for a lot of watch brands, and I would suggest working on the overall domain authority that is going to improve the rankings for each one of them as well as improving page title etc. I see there's opportunity for sure.