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I find the analysis tools I use now are pretty much limited to Powersuite and seomoz. I don't use auditing software that much, and therefore haven't explored Website Audit to its full potential, so won't be able to give any feedback there.

I strongly suggest you download the software and try the trial. They also have great support. I've made many suggestions and reported bugs and have always received timely responses.

"I personally think that Google's got this kind of spam figured out."

Really?

I've been partaking in an extensive trial study and will be releasing the results soon, however I do have quite a strong indication to the answer to this question but would like to see what everyone else thinks first, to see where the common industry mindset is at.

Let's say SiteA.com/page1.html is PR5 and links out to SiteB.com/page1.html

This of course would count as a valuable backlink.

Now, what would happen if SiteA.com/page2.html, which is also PR5, links out to SiteB.com/page2.html ?

The link from SiteA is coming from a different page, and is also pointing to a different deeplink on SiteB, however it will contain the same IP address.

What would the benefit be for having multiple deeplinks in this way (as outlined above, please read it carefully before responding) as opposed to having just a single deeplink from the domain?

If a benefit does exist, then does the benefit start to become trivial?

This has nothing to do with sitewide links. Serious answers only please.

Interesting analysis Jake.

Your response then opens another question, do inlinks from different domains on the same IP have the same value as inlinks from different subnets, and if they don't, then do the value of the links increase as the subnet becomes greater? (eg, a different class C subnet being better than just a different class D subnet etc).

If the IP address itself didn't matter, then would it be better to have two links from separate domains on the same IP, or two links from the same domain but on different subdomains with different IPs?

Look forward to your results too, as I haven't found a study where this has been properly analyzed to any great detail.