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Keri Raises a good point - I was under the assumption you would be going out and building these yourself , But like keri said if a service is doing this for you be careful how they are doing it and make sure it is quality and not a network or something that leaves a footprint.

It all depends on the strength of the sites not if its a blog or edu -If you can get on 100 blogs in your industry that people actually read not just seo sites and they have strong DA You should go with the real marketing (blogs in this case).

I find it hard to answer these sort of questions without seeing  the account from my experiences new accounts sometimes show bad scores when you first start a  campaign. But if you see it across the account i would try to make sure the ads relate to what the people are searching for as best as possible etc this post might help you as well - http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2454010&from=10215&rd=1

Do your old campaigns have bad scores also?

What are your ctr's? How long Has your account been running? Also check search queries to see if the phrase match is bringing in relevant searches

I would use "brand +Broad Keyword" as anchor text and in my opinion you should be safe but seo is a art not a science so do what you feel comfortable with.

Best practices is to only use 1 h1 tag per page. You can see a video from mat cutts here mentioning you can have more if done correctly - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIn5qJKU8VM

i gave you a thumbs up for your post -:)

I believe every page should be different so its clear to google that each page hs unique value and belongs in the index - I would think if had to pick which term I  want google to show this page for vs the home page and use that as the title and be clear to google this is the page by not using the title again

From what i can tell the real strong profiles that are worth doing it with are extremely expensive. So You really need a big budget for this but i have heard some nice success stories about it.

it would be duplicate content

I would do ppc to test your keywords first, then change your focus.

A great link building method is to find people who stole your content and contact them and let them know they can keep it up if they give you a link

1-copyscape.com is great for duplicate content

2-lol-don't bother-Its not worth the trouble -but here is the link https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?hl=en&pli=1

Not sure really what you are looking for but - great content like infographics or anything that is easily shared like photos or videos that includes your branding is great. Retargeting banners is also something that is super for branding.

Marcin is correct its called e-commerce tracking for analytics and your web developer should be able to put it in no problem.

You should be looking for traffic to your site, the amount of people pinning and commenting on your pins and the amount of new followers your getting.

This problem has been around for a while but only tech savy people are using this ad blocker and a large portion of those like my self allow ads on google. I would not worry that this would be a huge problem in the future unless the browser integrates it by default which i dont' think will ever happen.

Google disapproved  ads do not effect seo rankings - Unless google found problems with your landing page and then that would effect seo and ppc because the issue is with the site itself. I would call adwords and ask them what the problem with your site is and how you can fix it.