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Moz has their own crawler and their own index. Roger (the name of the crawler) can't feasibly crawl the entire web at the scale that Google can. It's nothing to worry about, likely Google sees the links and Roger will eventually.
If you want to see if the link is indexed, just search it in Google. You can also see incoming links in Google Webmaster Tools. If it's in there, Google sees it.
I would go ahead and submit as this can have an affect on the algorithmic part of the penalty. You should still try to have them removed, especially if a manual penalty is in place and record your steps, but if you know the links are bad you might as well go ahead and disavow them.
The title tag is the meta tag that appears on the tab in a browser. http://moz.com/learn/seo/title-tag
You are confusing this with the url. http://moz.com/learn/seo/url
A couple thoughts. I can't help but notice that this time corresponds approximately with Penguin 3.0 and a quick look at your backlink profile shows it does look spammy.
My second thought is that looking at the Wayback Machine, this site has been around for a very long time. Is it possible there were older redirects in the .htaccess file that were lost in the transition?
It would help if you post a link to the page Google sees. You can do a search on Google with the site: operator to find out of the link is indexed. Basically, you need to figure out if the link exists and then figure out what is causing it.
Based on your clarification above about the redirects, you are okay leaving it as is, as long as everything is redirecting properly. It would still be best practice to change the redirects from page 1 > page 3 and page 2 > page 3, so all old redirects point to their newer counterparts.
Even Moz's grader doesn't take all factors into account, but the biggest issue you are likely missing are links, could be external or internal or both. Make sure you have a few different keyword variations linking to the page, check the backlink profiles of a few of the top pages to make sure but I bet they have some anchor text links coming in that you are likely missing, giving them more relevance in the eyes of google.
A lot of things happened here in combination. The new site launched. You say a disavow file was updated, was there a penalty or was this pre-emptive? You might have killed a lot of links that were helping you with this. Looks like you changed CDNs. The site was switched to secure, except for the forum, and a lot of the secure pages are displaying non-secure content? It looks like you added more ads to the site. You removed some urls in Google? You should really wait for the pages to switch naturally through the 301s to the new structure. What you may have done is deleted pages that would be showing right now while the new pages haven't been crawled and added yet. There are a ton of broken and redirected internal links after the new launch. Some old pages were never redirected and I would be willing to bet there were some links lost. Looking at a quick speed test on pingdom compared to the history, it looks like the site is taking twice as long to load now as it was before. There are some ridiculous redirect chains happening that need to be cleaned up. A lot of pages are redirected 2-5 times before reaching their current destinations.
One example:
http://bellybelly.com.au/articles/Breastfeeding/breastfeeding-a-confidence-game
http://bellybelly.com.au/articles/Breastfeeding/breastfeeding-a-confidence-game/
http://bellybelly.com.au/Breastfeeding/breastfeeding-a-confidence-game/
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/Breastfeeding/breastfeeding-a-confidence-game/
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/breastfeeding/breastfeeding-a-confidence-game/
I would start by just getting your site back in order. It looks like this was not a great launch and there is a ton of cleanup that needs to be done.
The og:description is Open Graph and used for sharing, the other should be
Rebecca is absolutely correct, but unfortunately in this case it's a 302.
Why not both? Some cases one method is preferred over another, or in fact necessary. As with non html documents such as pdf, you may have to use the robots.txt to keep it from being indexed or header tags as well. I'll also give you another option, and that is to password protect a directory.
Yes, it would be lost. Yes, you should keep it active.
Quick fix = do the redirects.
Best practice = do the redirects and try to get the inbound links changed as well.
It is best if you can get the links changed, but always be sure to do redirects as well as there may be other links that you are not aware of.
Your second example will work for the homepage only really. I think the problem here is the order and if you're going to use that rewrite, use it last in the file. The problem with this type of redirect is that if you use it early, what will typically happen is it will redirect the domain but then create a broken link like olddomain.com/abc redirects and becomes newdomain.comabc creating a broken url.
You could take the tag section out of your template, stop using them in your posts, or in Yoast go to "Titles & Metas" > Taxonomies tab and check the box for noindex, follow under the tags section.
Google+ now allows you to set-up multiple admins, so that might help your main issue of who should set up the account.
Saying that though, since you're dealing with local businesses, I would suggest that you use the login info/password that they used when they created their Google places page(now google local) if that's applicable. That will allow you to go continue without going through the headache of having to contact Google and claim the place. If you do use this login/password, you will be able to create a personal account for the client which they then can use to share the businesses' page updates and links.
Basically, you can now use this personal page to help promote the business. For instance John is the owner of pizza King, he can not only share Pizza King's page info but +1 it on occasion and also add value to the conversation going on, within Pizza King's page.
Using John's page will also allow you to +1 and share the information in case you're worried about it being associated with you(the marketer).
For easy access, you can also set up your Google+ page as an admin, to the business page for quick updating and messages.
I hope that helps.
I agree with everyone else, that wordpress has a great CMS(content management system) and is fairly easy to operate for people who want a website but are afraid of it being too technical.
Benefits of wordpress include:
It looks like Google is aware of and has made this connection already. If you Google "employee manual" you will see that it actually bolds the term "handbook" as well. This usually indicates they can be used almost interchangeably in the content.
301 redirects are called permanent, but that's not really the case. They are permanent only as long as they are in place. If you want to see this, do everything as Andy said and then remove the redirect. You'll notice your traffic drop and when you put the redirects back the traffic will recover. Go ahead and do this every year and you'll see that each time it drops. We've dealt with drops that happened from domains that haven't been active in over 5 years, so as EGOL alluded to, keep them forever.