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These may be worth a look in:

http://www.paddymoogan.com/guest-posting-search-engine/

http://www.sourcebottle.com

http://www.bloggerlinkup.com

http://www.helpareporter.com

Raven Tools has a social media monitoring tool. I haven't used it myself in a while and I beleive they recently updated it. Check it out here: http://raventools.com/tools/social-media-monitor/

I suggest using rel=canonical on those pages, but be aware that they may still show up in the moz report.

For a site of that size and traffic volume I think you'll be fine with shared hosting - as long as you choose a reputable, quality host - which can be difficult when it comes to choosing a shared hosting environment!

I hesitate to recommend specific hosting companies because I've had both good and bad experiences with a number of hosts. Do your research and find a host with great support, reputation and standards.

The quality of the site is more important than the TLD, I don't think it should be much of a consideration.

You may see some benefit regarding localization in terms of getting high number of appropriate country specific TLDs. But, once again, quality still counts.

However, I often notice that sites with poor backlink profiles tend to have a lot of .info domains from directories.

I don't beleive you will get in trouble for favoriting too many tweets as it doesn't breach any of their T&Cs, guidelines.

If you used some kind of automation software to interact with Twitter, that may be another issue.

View this campaign > Campaign Settings (little text option under main nav) > Delete (scroll to bottom of page)

Judging by the links in the screenshot you attached alone, you've most likely been penalised for building too many exact match text links from junk sites. I note you said you think those links are valuable, but all I can see is free-for-alls like hubpages, squidoo and junky article sites.

In my opinion you're probably going to need to clean these up (remove them) or start fresh and focus on higher quality link building. Good luck.

You probably couldn't go past the LinkLove 2012 videos, an entire conference on link building, and very recent:  http://www.distilled.net/store/ll-2012-videos/

You'll have to re-create it.

You can delete the current one if you need by going into the campaign > Overview > Campaign settings. Scroll right to the bottom and click delete.

I noticed there hadn't been one since April, I just assumed the team were busy working on something big.

But agreed, the webinars were pretty great, hope we can expect more, more often.

Don't sweat, you won't be penalised for linking out to the BBB, even if it's site-wide in your footer.

You might be getting confused with possible penalties for having low quality links from other sites link to yours, especially from site-wide and/or footer links.

Slides here for a taste of what to expect: http://www.slideshare.net/paddy_moogan/35-ways-to-get-links-in-35-minutes-paddy-moogan-at-mozcon-2012

Nice one, John.

Also specific to e-commerce sites, often they have the same product description copied from the manufacturer as thousands of other sites. Unique product descriptions and UGC, such as ratings and reviews can help make product pages unique.

If you're talking about the # of links reported in SEOmoz / Open Site Explorer, a smaller index = fewer results. See: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/july-mozscape-update

"Overall I think they are reasonably priced..."

Based on what price?

2. If you do that you are going to dilute the strength / confuse the of relevance of the anchor text to that page. There is no good reason to do that.

Step one, read: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links and possibly http://www.seomoz.org/blog/build-your-social-media-embassies

Step two: Act.

There is no magic, follow the advice in those guides, work hard and you should see improvements.

If you can't afford a pro membership you can still get a decent amount of data from the free membership.

Otherwise you might want to take a look at the links reported by Google Webmaster Tools, you can download the links Google reports there by going to Traffic > Links to Your Site > Who Links to your Site - then click More.

You will then be able to download the current list, or even just the latest links.

I don't think standard tags get used much by visitors. Related posts, especially if acompanied by thumbnail images, perform much better in my experience.