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The benefit of any anchor text is to "tell" search engine bots what that page is exactly about. So, if you have link with "cats" as anchor text, linking to page about persian super white and fluffy cats - there is no much benefit, because Google can understand what pages are about in general without any help from anchor texts. However, if you use "persian super white and fluffy cats" as an anchor text, linking to that page, this is where the difference comes in. Even though google understands that that page is about cats, you might help search engine bots to understand the specifics of that page.

Just do go overboard! Anchor keyword stuffing is as bad (or even worst) as page keyword stuffing.

here is a whiteboard friday on this subject: https://moz.com/blog/all-about-anchor-text-whiteboard-friday

1. We use click metric to track calls from mobile devices for all our clients. It's decent metric (not good, not bad), simply because if I clicked on phone number, it doesn't necessarily mean that i gonna call it - it might have been a mistake, or i just changed my mind. So, It's a metric to get overall idea how many people are at least interested. From experience, those numbers (clicks to actual calls correlation) are pretty close - about 90%. The only other options there is (as far as I know), is call tracking, but that's what you are doing already and trying to stop doing

2. I don't see any reason why it would be bad from Search Engines point of view. The only negative part i see is extra action from user (which you already mentioned) and that crawlers wouldn't be able to see those phone numbers if you do showing through javascript.

First, I got confused, then confused, and confused again.

Did I mention i got confused?

This is a Magento site, so I know some of these things get created automatically . .. but what on earth is going on here?

Magento is a keyword there. Any CMS does some super crazy stuff. Some more crazy than others.

Or it can be temporary MOZ bug. I'd recommend check those urls manually with preserving log in Chrome or something. This way you'll be able to understand if it's actually happening or it's just crawlers fault. If you don't see anything abnormal happening while checking those urls manually, don't waste much time on it, especially those pages seem not to exist or not main pages of the website.
As MOZ says, it's medium priority, there are other things to worry about.

Hope this helps.

For listings and GMT use the version, which is the "end" version for user.

Example:

For my website I use https://www.hyperlinksmedia.com. That's my "end" version,Https and www version, I want this version to be displayed in SERPs, listings etc. So, no matter what version you type in address bar (hyperlinksmedia.com, http://hyperlinksmedia.com, www.hyperlinksmedia.com, http://www.hyperlinksmedia.com,https://hyperlinksmedia.com) they all gonna be 301-redirected to https://www.hyperlinksmedia.com.

So, I use it in listings, if listings don't allow to use https://, I use next best thing, which is http://www.hyperlinksmedia.com.

And I use https www version in GMT. Because that's the version I want to track, since it's the "end product", I'm not interested in transitional steps.

Hello, my friend.

If we put a ROBOTS rel=NOINDEX on all pages of the subdomains and leave the canonical (to the corresponding page of the company site) in place on each of those pages, will link juice flow to the canonical version?

Yes, link juice will flow, no problem. And agent page won't be indexed, correct. make sure to remove whatever blocking from robots.txt though.

Another thought I had was to place the NOIndex tag only on the category pages (the ones that seem to change every day) and leave it off the product (property detail pages, pages that rarely ever change).

The answer to this question depends on if you want those category pages rank? if not whatsoever - go ahead and noindex-tag them.

Not putting canonical on NOFOLLOW pages makes all sense in the world, because if page has NOFOLLOW, then bots WILL NOT FOLLOW ANY links on it, including canonical link.

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Hi, John.

Ok, there is a q/a video of matt cutts answering the question about "originality" of content in terms of if bigger website copies content from smaller author-website. (Can't find the link to it, may be other MOZers will help out here). Matt said that yes, it's possible. So, as far as I understand, Google can reassign original attribution. Especially, if your website was offline for long time.

At the same time, here is a Matt Cutts' video about duplicate content as a penalizing factor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZY7EmjbMA

According to that video, unless you're very spammy scraper, you are going to be fine in terms of duplicate.

About slow gain of rankings - having lots of referring domains is not the guarantee of fast or good rankings. It surely helps a lot, but it's not the only thing. Have you optimized content, technical SEO etc? As of tools for penalties - use Google Webmaster tools - manual action section. If there is nothing there, you haven't been penalized by google

About any recommendations - well, as I said, update/optimize content if needed, get your technical SEO in order. Since you said the rankings are growing and it has been a month since you've launched website - you're doing pretty good. It always requires time, my friend.

Hope this helps.