1)No idea here. I assume they mean you should not have the same content on two different pages maybe?
2)Like I said above search engines are not smart. We must help them and guide them through our websites. This is just proper management and we should expect to have to do it if we want to show up in the SE properly. If you don't care how you show up in the SE's then ignore these things.
4) I think linking to pages in multiple ways is fine as long it makes sense. I don't think you want to do it in a spammy nature which link to every page, on every page....gross
5) Just don't cloak.
6) I have said this a million times. Duplicate content is not really penalized. Google just shows what they feel is the original page/content first and sometimes sticks the rest of the dup pages in its supplemental index. Google only needs one copy of it so why have many in the index. I can say it enough you are not getting penalized for duplicate content within the same website. Google just picks one to show. It could be the one you want, it could be the printer page, it could be one with session IDs, it could be one with...etc.
IT IS UP YOU to tell to organize your content in manner in which you want it to show up in the search engine.
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K, well now I'm confused again, because wouldn't the same site at www.domain.com and also at www.domain.ca be duplicate or mirrored sites... unless of course they are in different languages or something...
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I have seen them getting better on separating these two domains themselves, by the TLD only, even with the same content on each. This used to be an issue in the past, but not so much
for Google anymore. You should still try to make each website as customized for each region as possible.