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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 think you have the perfect responses from Kade, Takeshi and Christopher. I agree with each one of them. In my opinion, the crux is that if done correctly it can be very very beneficial in terms of functionality, features and how visitors like your website and interact with it. I totally understand the concerns, they are very legit concerns. I would suggest to build your new stie using Wordpress on a staging server, test it to make sure all images, file paths etc are consistent and the code is clean. If you like it all, do the switch. You'd be fine.

A sub-folder would be best. So if you can install PHP, that would be great. If not, or if there are security concerns, I would suggest looking into Reverse Proxy.

Is it's easier to analyze if you have an example URL. These can be coded many different ways and a slight change can make a difference.

Sean, as Paul said it would be easier to analyze with the URL available or paste the code fragments after you anonymize your data if you'd rather not have it discussed in public or PM the URL.

I'd strongly recommend to only do 1 solid article. You don't want to have 2 articles, 99.98% duplicate and hurting yourself by having both of those pages within your website. If I as a user just write your article about Red Widget, it will be very very bad experience for me to start reading your Blue widget article and say, what ? You know what I mean. It does not make sense for the user or for the search engine.

You are on the right track. You are thinking about it. So your concern about this is legit. Don't do those "change the name of the color" articles.

I hope this helps.

I agree with Ian 100%. It does not make sense (Even though that pingback link is nofollowed). Does it help your user ? Would it be useful to have that link available to them ?  Think about the user experience and in most cases, we get the correct answer, which is almost certain to be white hat way of handling the situation :).

Great answer Ian.

You are 100% right. That's it. The concern is having 100's of thousands of links that would be very very low quality links. The affiliate link pattern will make it "sort of okay" if you decide to keep them follow. Those links are there for the affiliate tracking, but typically the majority of the web uses some sort of an affiliate tracking site like GAN (Which is closing down), CJ, Linkshare etc. Considering that, is it really worth the risk of having that many number of links ? Maybe, maybe not. And that's the business decision you need to make.

The affiliate traffic and sales is important (which justifies the affiliate program). Your natural SEO rankings (current and future rankability) helps you justify the importance of these kinds of decisions and which is why you are asking this question.

We just need to find the right balance without tripping too much on either side.

I'd suggest using a rel="nofollow" in the link to you.

Looks like it's fixed now. Correct me if I am wrong Hasan.

Fabrizo

How big is your natural link profile ? How many affiliate links are we talking ? Do you get a lot of natural links ? Is this your own affiliate program ? Can you do some sort of a link shortener of your own ? EG:

http://www.MSLink.com/whatever/?affid=[affiliate_id]

that redirects to

http://www.merchantsite.com/products/product_page/?affid=[affiliate_id]

which then further redirects to your product page.

This way if there are future problems, you can change/remove the redirects from MSLink.com if they happen to be hurting you anytime in the future while maintaining full control.

I hope this helps.

Dana. As of right now, I can confirm I can still see the related searches in Houston, TX.

It's not needed per se, but then if you have a large website and you think about the user and you want them to be easily able to find sections of your website, it can't hurt to have a HTML sitemap.

As for XML sitemap, the only reason I consider doing them to make sure if there are any issues of indexability, I know. So that I can act on that information and do something. Otherwise for a large scale website with over hundreds and thousands of pages, how'd you know if you have a section of your site not indexed for whatever reasons ?

Honestly, it varies so much based on your niche, your domain strength, nature of the keyword(s), your competition, types of results returned. Do you see local search results showing up ? How strong is your domain ? How competitive are the keywords ?

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.

As Mike D and Mike G said, they basically tell you how important domains are the domains (in terms of number of backlinks). It helps you guage and measure their strength in your head.

Answer to Question 2 first: I see why an SEO might have include /canada/ in it, but considering your domain is .ca and it's probably hosted in Canada (which it should be), it's not really needed unless you are also targeting /usa, /london and so on.

Answer to Question 1: I'd do the language first. That way, all your fr-ca cities are in the same language folder. But then, it could totally be the other way around and /location/language. I would recommended /language/location

I hope this helps.

Yes, that's right. What you'd end up with is a small list of URLs that have nofollow anywhere/somewhere on the page. If it's a big list of 5000 links and this tool can trim it down to maybe 200 having nofollow somewhere or 500 or 2000. In either case, it's a small list. Definitely not a solution to what you are looking for.

Marie

What you could do is use Screaming Frog to crawl all the links (the combined list of ahref links and WMT and then use the custom filter to check if the domain is there, ie your link is there and  then the 2nd filter to check if there is the word nofollow anywhere on the page. It's not going to be a perfect list, because you may end up seeing a page that is linking to you, but is nofollow'ing somebody else from the same page.

But then most of the times, the regular links, they are either nofollowed or they are not. "Mostly".

I hope this helps.

Gina

Create your identities on the social networks and share some of your content. Also put links to your social networks on your blog for your blog visitors to follow you on, look you up, contact you, connect with you etc. See how that works out. In my opinion, it depends and varies by niche to see where most of your audience is and how they like to interact with you. Over time, I would include more call to action sort of things like, towards the end of the article, Follow me on twitter to get notified when I post new articles. Or Like me on Facebook to get notified about my new article before anybody else etc.

It all depends what niche you are in, how big your audience is, where they are, demographics and how they interact with social media. Look at sites similar to yours and see what they do.

I hope this helps.