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The consensus is that even though the content is the same, that it will rank locally using country specific domains.  Can anyone provide examples where this is currently working?

Very interesting topic and awesome answers, thanks!

I'm seeing what rand says to be true in other areas like blogs and articles. Sorry I don't have a specific answer for you.

Very insightful anserws, thanks!

Rodney, Google spiders not only reads the anchor text on the link but also take into consideration ton of other factors including the text around the link, website url, domain name,  domain authority, page authority, title tag and several on page elements to decide the worthiness of a link. "Keyword 1 Keyword 2" anchor text definitely has more weight than "Keyword 1 Keyword 2 another word" or any other variation but that alone is not enough to rank for the keyword. I have seen direct improvement in keyword rank due to exact anchor text vs anchor text with extra words but too many backlinks with exact anchor text will be considered a forced attempt to gain ranking and Google could disqualify the link juice completely. Google is already beefing up their algorithm to disqualify paid and farm links. One of the most common themes in all paid links is the exact anchor text so it will be easier for Google to identify a set of exact anchor text links on a website with dofollow. Always try to use anchor text variations in the link building campaign. There are far better chances of rank improvement with an organic link building strategy compared to a forced anchor text tactic. Hope this helps. Thanks Sameer

Exactely. Sometimes I am not aware of an answer or question due to to much traffic here in the Q&A section ... I kind of loosing the overview 

I agree with Egol all the way.  However I'm less concerned about Google abandoning Blogspot than wanting to move to another platform, and being able to re-create and redirect all my pages, links, and rank.  With your own domain you can do this, but as a subdomain on blogspot.com it might not be possible. Redirecting blogspot.com sites came up in another thread recently.

So you're saying that in the webpage file itself, at the top if (isset($_GET["mobile"]){ $_SESSION["mobile"] = $_GET["mobile"]; $url = //Get the current URL, use RegEx to strip query strings header("Location: " . $url); } ?> If that's the case, and if in fact that's SEO friendly, I definitely like that idea!

Hi William, I'm trying to solve the pagination errors in Big Commerce. In what way would I modify robots.txt to fix this? Thanks! Hal

Thank you Richard. I have been reviewing some of my questions to post updates on what happened since. It seems that some of the backlinks took 4 or 5 months to show up on the report. So perhaps the lower quality links can take longer if they are on small sites who do not get much indexing action.

I would always use, as Spencer has stated, .com/blog/ so you do not risk splitting the link juice.

Je suis probablement un petit peut influencée par les Américaines. Normalement tous les trends de l'internet viennent d'Amérique, alors je crois que n'utiliser pas les tirets et certainement pas faux. Un tiret - ca va - mais plus qu'un - c'est certainement pas bien.

Great question Neil!  Google uses optical character recognition (OCR, more specifically OCRopus) to convert visible print into search searchable text; hence, you're able to find terms in Google books via Google search. Link text is also recognizable due to the standard 'http' format, so even though you'd never be able to click it via an old book in the library (who knows what new ones will do!) Google Books is still able to recognize the link and treat it as such in the digital, Internet realm.  Now, a website that is being mentioned in books has a high likelihood of having a robust backlink profile, but that notwithstanding, I'd bet that Google would give an high amount of trust to a link that makes it into its OCR database. As for street view, that is pushing it!  Who knows though, there's merit in giving a website online exposure for the offsite work they do via billboards, store fronts, etc.  I think you and I both would love to know the people that could truly answer that one though, huh?

unfortunately, paid links do work, just ask J.C. Penney! you will find more value long term getting organic links and those you build through participation.

this is a good idea 

I see  no reason to have duplicate titles regardless of the reasoning. You are loosing keyword potential. There has to be other supporting keywords you did not use on strong pages that you could supplement on non competing pages.

Hahah! My favorite answer these days is...it depends. , if you have a mortgage company to push, then find your white flag now. But if you have a niche industry, then yes, it is possible. But like everyone else has said. make the on-page rock solid and work on links.