Good read, but I'm not sure I agree with the last suggestion - getting links on resource pages - unless it's a high authority site and there aren't many links on the resource page. Otherwise, these look like the old fashioned link pages that Google now routinely ignores.
I've figured out that the bottom line is that G doesn't want site A, which went around the web and posted thousands of backlinks, to rank better than site B, which has never posted a backlink but has 50 genuine links from sites that highly recommend them. They may never perfect their algorithms for this, but you can bet they're going to keep working at it.
The other suggestions seem good, but number 2 and 3 might mean a lot of work for little return unless you get lucky.
None of these suggestions will work well if you have low-quality or spammy content, so again the focus comes back to quality content, which is what we'd all like to see in the Google serps, right?
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