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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.

From a quick look in Open Site Explorer, it looks like a good bit of low quality link building.  Random forum comments on unrelated topics, free-for-all social bookmarking submissions, links from directories that are really suspect, etc.  Realistically, you might as well not do any link building if this is the quality you're going after - it'd be a better strategy.

I know it's tempting to get a lot of the easy links out there at first, but if you skip this step and focus all of your efforts on getting top quality backlinks, you'll end up with better results, and you'll thank yourself later when you're not spending time trying to clean up a crappy backlink profile.

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.

I've seen keywords separated with - and | and even >, and in my opinion, the separator you use shouldn't affect search rankings.  It may have an impact on click through rates within any given search engine result page, so you should try to find the one that is most visually appealing.

Also, in general I like to try to be a bit more creative than "KEYWORD1 | KEYWORD2 | KEYWORD3 - SITENAME".  In my opinion, something like "KEYWORD1 and KEYWORD2 Tips and Advice, at SITENAME" is much better.  It feels less spammy, and I'm convinced results in a higher CTR.  I think most people are trending this way, lately: considering the user a bit more than the search engines.  I don't think you could have said the same thing a few years back.

The short answer is: it depends.  Nobody can really give you an accurate response here without more information about what type of company your client is, how big their website is, how competitive these keywords are, what page your client would like to rank for these keywords, etc.

Generally speaking, any given page should FOCUS on anywhere between one and four of your most valuable keywords.  Of course, this page will, ideally, be optimized for dozens of long-tail keywords, but the main focus (in your on-page factors and in your link building efforts) should be on a select few.

Likewise, how many keywords can you run an effective linkbuilding campaign for at one time?  And can you find natural ways to accumulate all of those links you'll be needing?

The converse is, if your client has a big website with hundreds of products, focusing on 10 keywords isn't going to quite cut it.  You're still going to need to focus on a few "money" keywords, but you're also going to really need to consider the long-tail end of the spectrum.  In this case, that might mean really focusing on the technical side of things, as your client will see the biggest impact from those changes that affect dozens of pages.  Perhaps you're also going to make a big push for an initiative that will help acquire user generated content for all of your products (reviews!).  You need to find ways to be able to scale your solution across hundreds of pages, and that type of approach will be very different from that which you would implement on a smaller site.

Give us a bit of information to work off of:

• What type of business is your client?

• How big is their website?

• What general industry are they in?

They're probably positively correlated, but I wouldn't say there is causation.  Naturally, any website ranking well for a given long-tail term is probably doing a lot of things right.  That doesn't necessarily mean that they will be competitive for a short-tail term, however.  Oftentimes, long-tail terms are of such low competition that a website can rank well for them with on-site elements in the right places and perhaps a link or two.  Short tail keywords, especially the most competitive ones, oftentimes require very extensive linkbuilding campaigns.

I'd pay the monthly PRO membership fee just for access to the Keyword Difficulty Tool, alone.  I think, value-wise, SEOmoz is the best investment as far as any web-based SEO tools are concerned.  Plus, the PRO ability to ask Private questions and get them answered by actual SEOmoz staff?  Absolutely in-friggin'-valuable.

I was very active in SEOmoz's Q&A forums today and completed my profile - raising my Moz points from 0 to 50.  On my profile, however, I am still listed as Unranked.  Also, I do not appear on the SEOmoz Top Members List next to other users with 50 points.

I'm guessing this is something that is updated once a day or so, and the rank will update tomorrow.  Is my suspicion correct?

I think the new way you have the categories set up is the right way.  If you want to really focus on a specific locale, consider creating separate landing pages for each of these locations.  The landing pages can feature a map and some images of the area, links to your blog posts featuring weddings you shot in that area, and general information about weddings in that area: popular halls and venues, etc.

If you're going to do this, it's important that each page have GOOD, UNIQUE content about that specific location.  Otherwise, you'll create way more problems than you solve.

In my experience, use of rel="canonical" is more related to consolidating external link juice.  If you're concerned with getting all of your products indexed, focus on creating a good XML sitemap and verifying it in Google Webmaster Tools, and finding ways to create both internal and external links to your deep URLs.  I would make the canonical page the one that you want to send visitors to.

I doubt the drop is a result of the videos.  As far as Panda is concerned, I would focus my rehabilitation efforts on:

• Fixing Duplicate Content (ESPECIALLY on your own website!  get well acquainted with how to use rel="canonical")
• Cleaning Up Your Site (focus on making a cleaner experience for your visitors and simpler code for the search engines)
• Fix Your Technical Issues (fix any problems that SEOmoz is telling you about, any crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools, any page speed problems in Google's Online Page Speed Tool, and potentially any HTML validation problems from W3C)
• Content, Content, Content (create more original content and refresh your evergreen content)

Be warned that there haven't been a ton of verifiable Panda recoveries to date, which may be in part due to the fact that (as Matt Cutts verified) Google isn't updating the "Panda factor" very often.  Recovery may take weeks to months.  The best article available on the subject, in my opinion, came out last week: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/40851/10-tips-for-beating-google-panda

I've never used TextBroker, although I too have heard good things.  I think their services are a bit overpriced, in my opinion at least.  For a 3-star quality article, a 400 word piece would cost you $6.40.  I think that's on the high end.

For my lower quality content creation (lower quality here meaning anything I don't write myself), I use freelancers.  I shopped out a couple of gigs to Fiverr, found a freelancer that did really good work, then approached her for a bulk order outside of Fiverr.  She does great work for me, and I pay $2.50 a piece for good quality 400 word original articles.  I've also had luck with freelancers from oDesk, or you can find a local college student from Craigslist.  I think no matter how you do it, you can get better quality articles for cheaper than what TextBroker offers.

I agree with EGOL.  When people say that your best content belongs on your website, I always ask myself - why are you spending time creating content that isn't your best?  Whether you intend to put an article on your website or use it for a guest post opportunity, you owe it to yourself to only put your name on the best quality work you can produce.  You'll create way more opportunities for yourself down the road as you start to be seen as an expert in your niche.