Great point - This is alot harder but more worth while in the long run as you can get better sites to blog for.

The above method is great - One of the best ways is to find someone in the niche doing guest blogging and look at backlinks and search the author bio  and reverse image search the avatar to find opportunities.But be careful not to guest blog on free for all and bad sites.

If you see alot of impr for the keyword "buy keyword" after you run it on phrase etc i would make a new agroup for buy with the buy keywords with ads focused on that intent. This will allow you to bid on them separately and talk to what they are looking for better then a broad or phrase.

I find freelancers are only good if You first know seo or have a plan then you can hire someone and tell them exactly what you want them to do. Thats why going with a company can be a better option - if you dont have the budget you should take a consultant who can make you a road map of what you need then you can find a freelancer to do the work.  - you can pm me what you need done and your budget and ill try to refer you to some freelancers.

No problem - if you use modifiers and phrase and broad negatives it should solve your issues- If you need more info on modifiers pm me

This way you can aggregate all the times together over a date range to get a feel over time which ours are best. you can also use advanced segments to only see organic traffic or other sources.

The answer is to not use broad match use broad match modifier and other match types or you will always run into these problems.

The other way to do it is use broad and phrase match negatives instead of exact match.

Without seeing the account this is the best i can do to help you

You can do it by making a custom report attached are the settings you need to use.

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The roi value of doing ppc for seo is often not their. Most ppc is sales targeted and that doesnt help seo which is what others where trying to say.

My comment was just saying that at times if you know what your doing it can help seo but its not cheap and often not worth it.

Correct

In short - Yes it could help seo but not because google favors ppc - Targeted traffic to quality materia can l= links and shares

AdWords can improve SEO if you are sending traffic to your guides and link bait which gets links and shares