Hi,

to be honest the best way to do it is not to have the same anchor text in all article syndication.

Switched up the anchor text and pages you are linking too imo.

Find some variations of "Phone Recycling" which are getting traffic example "best Phone Recycling" then switch the URLS too.

Depends how large scale you are doing the articles too, if it is only 10 then I wouldn't worry but if it is 100 worry about switching link urls and anchors for sure.

I have seen some results for Wikipedia where you pull your hair out hehe, but the thing is the site is soo high authority and the internal link value it holds.

To be honest I have had experience taking down Wikipedia where you deal with big brand websites and you can highly target the site.

Really do some analysis on the links the wikipedia page has, see what you may be missing if content is not the problem.

Just keep pushing fresh content and social signals too if you can try and implement people to search for your website and drive higher CTR on the serp page.

I would not worry too much about text to code ratio as an exact number.

Things I would more so worry about are the following:

1. Do you have more then 200 words of text per page.

2. Do you have low amount of code errors on page.

3. Do you have alot of code space on the page (I have see this numerous times.

4. Make sure you have the key text elements near the top of the page when Google crawls the content first, also your key on page elements.

Google has recently changes the way sub folders work so Google now treats sub domains as the same website,

That been said the sub folder is normally a far better option due to internal linking factors behind the domain and it works as a more powerful option over time from my experience.

You can do internal re directs, we have done 100s over the years and not had many dramas, just make sure you map out the correct re directs to correct folders.

I would really research the level of localized traffic per sub folder, research into the new Google changes into sub folders, and look at Google ad preview for GEO based serps based on your domains based per state to see what the potential problems could be.  You really need to do a risk analysis for the client, we have done a few of these recently for global travel clients who have had similar issues.

I would not give the experts a blog on the wordpress sub domain be sure that when they blog it is on a sub folder for your website so when links are built they benefit your site directly and not wordpress.

Are you referring to a XML site map or a HTML site map?

In my opinion what you can do is make a custom sitemap and then target all the top sub categorys/ top internal pages, normally you do not add say 20,000 product pages to a XML site map.

Similar strategy can be utilized with the XML sitemap and also the HTML site map.

I would not advise on buying fans because usually you end up with low quality fans who have no engagement with the page, 95% of the time they are fake profiles too. Really why buy a bunch of fake fans, the only benefit is if you want to make your brand look like it has some likes! 
But overall in the future your page becomes a waste land where people do not even comment or any thing due to the fact you have no real customers to engage with.

Hi to be honest article spinning use to bring great results yet recently we see more and more changes with Google cracking down on spinners. I mean Article Samurai is said to be a decent tool using the best spinner, I have tested it and it seems to be decent.

Yet the best results will be driven from authority PR article sites which are indexed in Google news. It is a real method of trial and error you can submit your article to 100 low quality article sites or 10 very high article sites which will yield better results.