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If the new website is really new I suggest testing to see what happens when you redirect from the older site. If the older site pages dont have rankings and or any authority, I wouldnt bother either way.

I have filled many recons once for a domain without losing the button. If your manual penalty check shows no manual actions, I wouldnt be worried. I havent heard of them doing that, and I have dealt with a lot of penalties.

Like I said - keep checking. If they WERE annoyed with your multiple submissions, give it 2 weeks - the normal timeframe that they ask you to wait before resubmitting a reinclusion request.

Have you manually verified drop in rankings where visibility is shown down in AWR?

Frankly i wouldnt worry about it. Unless your journal entries are really poor and not unique in any way, I would just carry on. If you ARE really concerned, you can noindex / follow them or better still, move your journal to an external blogging platform if it doesnt fit the theme of the site, something like Tumblr might work well for you by the sounds of it.

Tags are basically lists of posts with a common theme - some sites automatically create tags, but commonly bloggers would add these into the CMS.

Ideally, tags are kind of an extension of "categories" and often are similar to these in the way they are presented, but while posts appear on one or two categories, tagged posts can appear on many tag pages. As such tag pages could result in a lot of duplicate content on a blog, and for many years now I and others have been advocating noindexing tag pages (good SEO plugins would do this for you) and to no follow links to tags - which sounds like the type of implementation you have.

Unless you are 100% sure that your tagged pages dont create too much duplicate content, I would leave them nofollowed, as I have seen them do more harm than good.

I have seen this ONCE only. and at that time their penalty was revoked without a message. Keep an eye on the traffic and see if it increases, and periodically check the manual actions checker.

Have you broken down your analytics by the same regions?

Do you have GWMT set up? If you do, then you can also check GWMT impressions by region to see if there is a real dip.

There are other tools in the market that may look at your visibility better, but without looking at the site, there could be a host of situations.

www.example.com/key2=value2&key=value1
www.example.com/key=value1& key2=value2

As long as the URLs can be reached with a status 200 on either permutation, then it would be seen as a distinct URL.

From an SEO standpoint, depends on the semantic set up and content variation.

Any chance you can screenshot and redact the domain - I am not sure that this is being read right...

Disallow in robots would work - especially if the JS is actually rendering a pop up PAGE not a snippet existing on the page. If possible, I would prefer the use of Rel Canonical on those pop up pages - Google is funny sometimes and indexes URLs if you dissallow them in robots.

My personal rule of thumb - as few redirect jumps as possible. Three main reasons:

1. User journey + Browsers - Sometimes when there are too many redirects taking place, some browsers find it difficult to follow through and would simply not load the page.  Also, even if there were only 2-3, the browser may load, but users on slower connections may find it tiresome waiting for content to load.

2. As ThompsonPaul highlights, you COULD lose some link value due to dilution through 301 redirects.

3. Multiple 301 redirects are often used by spammers and I foresee in the near future these causing a lot of ranking headaches. The older the site, the longer the chain might end up - for example, imagine you had a product at:

https://domain.com/product1
Links to that page exist at domain.com/product1

The journey would be: domain.com/product1 >http://domain.com/product1 > https://domain.com/product1

Now imagine a year down the line, product 1 is discontinued and you decide to redirect https://domain.com/product1 to domain.com/product2

Imagine your journey now:

domain.com/product1 >http://domain.com/product1 > https://domain.com/product1 > domain.com/product2 >http://domain.com/product2 > https://domain.com/product2

This could carry on indefinitely in the lifetime of the site...

Best solution: Decide what version of the site you want to use and simply try and use only one redirect, not a chain. Periodically check for chained redirects and resolve as you go along. (I try and do this bi annually).

Frankly depends on the depth you want to take and your CMS and its automation features.

So take for example your page : www.mysite.com/dog-training/whistle-training/

An automated title tag and meta description set up would take its data from the URL and Page titles and categories:

Whistle Training for Dogs > Dog Training Guides > MySite.com

Whereby you have the rules:

{Page Title} for Dogs > {category URL} Guides > Mysite.com

In such instances it is better to use clever set ups that work with most keyphrase combinations, and the added "Dog Training" in the title, URL and page description helps strengthen the overall site or section focus when it comes to the primary keyword such as "Dog training"

So in the example Richard has given above:

• www.mysite.com/dog-training/whistle-training/

Title: Whistle Training for Dogs > Dog Training Guides > MySite.com

• www.mysite.com/dog-training/triball-training/

Title: Triball Training for Dogs > Dog Training Guides > MySite.com

• www.mysite.com/dog-training/fetch-training/

Title: Fetch Training for Dogs > Dog Training Guides > MySite.com

This shows that you have plenty of "Dog Training" pages in that category and you can start to see how the repetition would help the section on the site.

However, if you DONT have automation, I prefer a flatter hiearchy:

• www.mysite.com/whistle-training/
• www.mysite.com/triball-training/
• www.mysite.com/fetch-training/

You can still have the same title tag set up to strengthen the relevancy.

The reason why I prefer the flat URL hiearchy is that in your case the flowed hiearchy works, but on many sites a page could be part of two categories, and as such can cause havoc or multiple URLs when trying to fit into URL.

A clever design team can help neaten up the look, but I would try better descriptive text for product titles if possible without going overboard and keyword stuffing.

No it doesn't. You need to disavow and remove as many bad links. Unlike a manual penalty, which has a time limit reset factor, penguin is algorithmic, so the filter will keep your site down if you don't do anything about it.

If you switch the page then there is a slight risk, although you are doing it for the right reason. One of the better and safer ways of doing this is to serve an image or a small block of text that directs users to the better matched section, and only geo serving that content on the page, not the whole page.

So here is your issue

run a review, start removing and disavowing all the bad links. A lot of penalties went out in April, e which is why Mozcast was so volatike, there wasn't a major update IMHO.

If you decide to go down the route of creating a fictitious address, you may find hard to get a real one approved if you get caught out. They are getting stricter. In the past you could use a mailbox if you didnt have a real place

Have you checked the penalty check tool in webmaster tools?

Personally I prefer the .com versions as they van be future proofed. It's hard to rank a dot travel domain.  Dot org rank ok, but I think loose their branding value. If you are building a long term pure white hat strategy, I would focus on a decent dot com. And register the front org and dot net versions too.

DoDpi you mean on page product titles?

it may look nicer, but you loose keyword real estate. Where possible, I would still look to use keywords.