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I can comment on pagination as Google has released very good guide for this in light of their support for prev and next rels: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/09/pagination-with-relnext-and-relprev.html

This is not blackhat, but definitely Panda food. Unless they have a very high authority domain I don't see this technique working for them well (or at all) in the future.

Reference: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-guidance-on-building-high-quality.html

"One other specific piece of guidance we've offered is that low-quality content on some parts of a website can impact the whole site’s rankings, and thus removing low quality pages, merging or improving the content of individual shallow pages into more useful pages, or moving low quality pages to a different domain could eventually help the rankings of your higher-quality content."

How do you post your comments, by hand or automated?

Assuming I am not creating a link scheme but link building through content and outreach to webmasters, what are the odds that I will create a link on the same IP address twice?

Your idea of link building may be very different from mine. Why in the world would you need to rotate proxies while link building? Please help me understand.

Maybe it's due to personalisation of your search (sequence of searches, login, location, google.tld etc) other than that just keeping it slightly random as Google tends to do with most things.

Copy the site, set it up on a staging server and run http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ on it?

No way. Create one account and add www and non www to it. Don't create two accounts for each canonical version of your domain.

Yes. Very nice and simple interface.

Just downloaded and installed. Very excited to try something new!

You're welcome to test drive it after we release it as an alpha.

You will find this article interesting: http://www.seobythesea.com/2011/10/googles-exact-match-domain-name-patent-detecting-commercial-queries/

Majestic is great for research just like OSE, however it doesn't offer link building management capabilities.

I literally just published a study which analyses link building process in attempt to solve the management of the entire process: http://dejanseo.com.au/link-building-software/

Soon there will be a followup article of all link building / SEO software we've trialed so far including: raven, ontolo, linkdex, diyseo, wordtracker and a few others that we thought were pretty good. Stay tuned!

I'd agree that this phrase is long-tail enough to rank without difficulty. His title tag for example is the best match from all other results I can see - that would be a significant factor.

Oh! Yeah I can see that... I was looking for it in the black nav Very interesting - that layout reminds me of Facebooks new design. I wonder who copied whom?

I am a big fan of building a strong brand. An if you want to capitalise on a keyword loaded domain then make sure it's an exact match or as close as you can get to it for a search terms that you know carries relevant search volume. Set it up as a fish-net site which (again in your brand) captures that slice of the traffic and focus on the big picture with your main domain.

I have observed some strange switches between home page and landing page on our site which kind of goes towards your theory. However I am not convinced that Google consolidates PageRank in any other way then simply by following links and mathematically assigning it throughout the site. All duplicate pages flow PageRank and pass it to the rest of the site in the same way they receive it. Sometimes Google will block a page which is seen as duplicate. That page will not show or pass any PageRank or anchor text value to other pages (dead end).

I have seen one interesting solution for this in retail/ecommerce industry.

Knowing that iPhone will evolve in different versions webmasters name their pages:

domain.com/iphone (not domain.com/iphone4)

The version is contained in changeable elements such as title tag, meta description and content.

Another thing you can do is merge various page of similar or same content into one canonical version (using rel="canonical").

When pages expire it would be a good idea to take users to the next best piece of content - to maximise SEO value you would redirect them using 301 if the change is permanent or 302 if you anticipate the job to come back at some point in time.

By recycling the same URL after job re-appears you will be preventing creation of disposable URLs and runa  cleaner site. Any old links pointing to those pages will not be going to a 404 page but to the old URL thus capturing the much needed link juice in the correct place.

External anchor text (in combination with your content) would iron any misconceptions Google may get from internal link anchor text. Internal anchor text is of course a significant hint but I think you are safe and this is why... Google treats boilerplate and navigational elements with less editorial value (footer, navigation, sidebars) so if your article/content based anchor text is correct you will end up with those single letter links simply passing link juice around and editorial links passing meaningful tips to Google about your content.

This behaviour was confirmed by Matt Cutts in one of his recent videos on YouTube.