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Can you be more specific about what you mean by "high PR networks"?  Are you talking about Web 2.0 websites like Squidoo?  Or microsites / linkwheels?  I'm a bit confused.

Did you follow all of the steps in SEOmoz's Guide to Switching Domains?  It's a great checklist that covers pretty much everything you should do to maximize your recovery speed.

BigDaylight also has a post about switching domains - most of the advice is reiterated in SEOmoz's guide, but it's got a bit more detail.  Definitely worth the read.

If your website was filled with empty pages or pages featuring duplicate content, it is certainly possible that your website was affected by Google's recent Panda update. To recover from this, you're going to want to really focus on cleaning up duplicate content, getting rid of low quality pages, and building more unique content.  It's a tough road back, but some websites are starting to see success with Panda recovery.  Pocket-Lint recently wrote a great guide detailing their successful Panda recovery efforts.

Your low PA and DA, however, would not be affected by Panda, as these are numbers calculated by SEOmoz according to your backlink profile.  To raise your PA and DA scores, find ways to attract or build high quality links to your website.  Building links with keyword-rich anchor text (like the links in my response) will help your rankings for any given keyword.

I've heard very good things about WP E-Commerce, but I haven't used it myself.  I did find this nifty SEO guide for that platform, and because WP E-Commerce puts products on pages, the URLs should follow your permalink structure, but don't take my word on that.  I suppose since it is free, you can always test it out yourself if you have a few minutes to play around.  Good luck!

Well, first thing's first, let's find out if your website is indeed indexed by google.  Go to Google and do a search for site:www.yourdomain.com.  Is your website coming up?  Most of your pages?  None of your pages?

Pinging can help, but if your website isn't getting indexed, you likely have some bigger issues to deal with.  Is Google being blocked by your robots.txt file?  Have you verified your website with Google Webmaster Tools and submitted an up-to-date XML sitemap?  Have you started to build high quality backlinks to your website?

If Google isn't indexing your pages, pinging them is equivalent to putting a band-aid on a gunshot wound.  First figure out what the problem actually is, then take action.

You should check out Shopp.

It's a very robust Wordpress shopping cart and it was built with SEO in mind.  A quick look at their demo website shows that the URL for a given product is indeed search optimized.  The plugin is $55, but it looks like it could be what you're looking for.  More importantly, it is actively under development, has an abundance of extras that you can purchase (payment gateways, shipping options, etc.), and has a pretty active community that frequently develops free plugins that work with Shopp.

A quick check of the IP addresses (http://www.seochat.com/?option=com_seotools&tool=35) shows that whoever made all of these microsites intentionally diversified the Class C addresses of these websites.  This suggests that someone with a fairly advanced knowledge of SEO is behind this little link scheme.

Microsites aren't anything groundbreaking.  These are pretty well done - the content seems unique and there has been some linkbuilding work done to the websites.  I would definitely say that these are contributing to your competitor's success.

The question then becomes...is this something you should be replicating?  That's a more complicated answer.  Microsites can be effective, especially if you give them the same level of TLC that these microsites have received.  Are they your best use of time and resources?  Not always.  The effort spent to build content and develop links for these microsites is probably better spent creating content and developing links for your main site.

The flipside of the argument is that creating engaging content and attracting backlinks in a niche industrial market can be tricky, and sometimes manual linkbuilding (like creating microsites) is just way easier.  The "white hat" response to that is that with enough creativity, pure white hat SEO success is possible.  I'd recommend reading Rand Fishkin's post, "White Hat SEO: It F-ing Works" - if you read through, he breaks down some awesome linkbuilding campaigns that have been executed in "boring" industries.  It's definitely worth the read.

WarriorForum, like any other forum, is only as good as the member that is contributing.  Once you're around any forum for long enough, you start to get a sense of who the reputable, intelligent, and honest members are.  Members with lots of reputation points are usually a bit more trustworthy than newer members, or members with negative reputations.

The Q&A forum you're on right now is, in my opinion, one of the best remaining places on the Internet to ask questions and engage in discussions related to SEO.  These parts are policed way more than most forums, and in my opinion, the intelligence level of the average member is much higher than some of the other forums out there.

I also really like SEOChat, but the quality of that forum has admittedly declined over the last few years - in particular, I see EGOL and JV Rudnick posting more on the SEOmoz Q&A than SEOChat, and they were always dishing out some of the most valuable advice.  So...you might just be in the right place.

Google News does not accept individual press releases, it merely aggregates news from a variety of sources around the internet.  I have had good experience with using PRWeb from my press release distribution.  In my experience, all of the press releases I have submitted with their service have ended up in Google News, and they have brought my clients a fair amount of traffic in the process.

Your assumption that you would get a bunch of blog comments from .edu websites is correct.  Most of them will be nofollow.  Many of them will have comments sections ridden with thousands and thousands of spam links.  Some of them will be on .edu websites from foreign countries.  All of them will be garbage.

I know that you already knew the answer to this question, deep down.  It's okay - I think all of us at some point need to be steered away from one of those "too good to be true" link building propositions.  Building great links is hard work, and there aren't any real shortcuts if you want to do it the right way.  As the saying goes, "Money, Time, Results.  Pick two."

TopSEOs is a scam at worst, and a waste of time and money at best.  It's the modern day version of those "Who's Who" books - you can pay to get in, so the rankings are essentially meaningless.

Aaron Wall took the company to task a few years back: TopSEOs.com: A Review of the Top SEOs Paid Rating Service

And if you want the official SEOmoz opinion, here's a tweet of Rand's endorsement of the abovementioned blog post.

Put your best content on your own website.  Have her create an incredible resource section for her field.  Literally, aim to make it the BEST CONTENT ON THE WEB for that topic.

Other high quality content can be shopped around to relevant blogs and informational websites for guest post opportunities, as Daniel pointed out.  But in order to get the most mileage from your content, put it on your own website.  Then, let other webmasters and bloggers know about the INCREDIBLE resource you have created - if your content is really the best on the web, you should have no problem getting people to link to it.

Content selection is obviously really important.  I think if you choose your content well, you can definitely market it to other niche NLP websites.  Because of the nature of the topic, I wouldn't expect it to blow up huge on a social media or social bookmarking website, but you should be able to get some good, high-quality links from relevant, niche websites, which is by and large the name of the game.

I think you can get even more mileage out of infographic linkbuilding if you explore NLP as it related to different topics: management training, specific self-help areas, etc.  This can help you diversify the type of websites that you can realistically get a link from.

For your first foray into infographic linkbuilding, however, I think you're headed in the right direction.

The answer isn't quite black and white.  There are dozens of ways to "buy" links, and not all of them are necessarily frowned upon.

To address your specific question, paying money for directory submissions isn't necessarily a bad thing.  A couple of the bigger directories, like Yahoo! and Business.com, require a fee for listing, and though SEOs do disagree about the value of these links, they are generally not regarded as anything that can get you in trouble with Google.  It's best to focus on the most prominent, trafficked, and authoritative directories - you shouldn't shell out cash to just any old directory out there.

As far as other ways to buy links...that's where things get a bit dicey.  Many SEOs, and certainly most that you will encounter on an SEOmoz forum, subscribe to the theory that link buying is bad.  On the other end of the spectrum, there are a great many SEOs that actively buy links, including some of the biggest-name SEO firms that exist.  Those that have success with link buying generally do not work with a brokerage (like Text-Link-Brokers), but rather negotiate private deals with owners of authoritative, relevant websites in their industry.  When it comes to link buying, the best practitioners put a great deal of effort into procuring links that look natural, are embedded into content (rather than sitewide or footer links), and on pages/websites that have content related to the website they are promoting.

Regardless of what those in the industry do, Google very specifically states that link buying is NOT an acceptable practice in their eyes, and they go to great lengths to find ways to both manually and algorithmically punish websites engaging in this practice.

Aaron Wall wrote a great post talking about "white hat" ways to purchase links, and it demonstrates that with a bit of creativity, one can effectively exchange money for links without necessarily breaking Google's guidelines: http://www.seobook.com/archives/002422.shtml

Basically, the decision is up to you.  Certainly there are very effective ways to practice SEO without engaging in link buying, and indeed many of the websites leading the pack for competitive keywords haven't had to buy links to get there.  The most important thing is knowing all of the facts, and the potential consequences of each choice.

Google certainly recognizes that the phrases are related, but they most likely distinguish these semantically.  You'd probably want to work in phrases like "Pain Management" or "Pain Relief" to optimize for the keyword "Pain".

Moreover, though, you shouldn't really be paying attention to keyword density when you're creating your content.  In fact, you really shouldn't be thinking very much about Google at all when you're creating your content.  The very best content is written for people.  Think of your readers.  Think of what they would find most interesting/engaging/helpful.  Appeal to your readers and write like Google doesn't even exist, and you'll find that you've created the type of content that gets links on its own, and gets shared socially without having to "fake it".

Your concerns are certainly valid, but in my opinion, I think you should definitely go forwards with your ideas.  Especially in the post-Panda world, we're seeing Google really reward simplicity in design and infrastructure.  Moreover, I think consolidating all of the different colors of one style onto one page makes the most sense for the users - in terms of creating an intuitive user experience and creating a faster and smoother browsing experience.

301 redirects are the right move for the product pages that you phase out.  I think you will find link building and SEO work on the product level much easier with less pages to focus on.  As far as the long-tail traffic loss implications, this is a valid concern, but obviously you can have a list of the different available colors on each product page.  I would also beef up my long-tail optimization with a push for user generated content in the form of user reviews.  If you don't already accept these, consider doing so.  If you do accept these, how about a promotion of some type to stimulate a big push to accrue some more.  You can have users select the color of the item they are reviewing in order to get those terms on the page more frequently.

It is certainly a long process, my friend.  The best advice anybody can give you is to keep your nose to the grindstone, create incredible content, and figure out creative ways to get links from the most authoritative websites in your niche.

Ah, gotcha.  Personally, I only have one campaign per client I work on.  I don't have multiple SEOmoz campaigns to focus on different keywords for one website.  I suppose you could organize it that way if you want to, but I think most of us have multiple clients or are working on multiple websites, so our slots are very precious.

I'm a bit iffy on how to answer this, because your question sort of seems like you are talking about PPC campaigns, but the question is posted under Technical SEO.  If you're talking about PPC, these would certainly all have their own Ad Groups.

If you're talking about SEO, on the other hand, things are a bit different.  The way people typically organize their SEO tactics is to do the whole on-site optimization stage first and foremost.  After that, specific link building campaigns would be run for a number of different high-value keywords.

CopyScape will let you do it manually, but they also have a paid service called CopySentry (http://copyscape.com/copysentry.php) that will run automatically and notify you of new instances of duplicate content on a regular basis.