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I would go for landing page for each preferred keyword. We have run this experiment for few clients and it works really well. I urge you to have landing page for each top keyword and sue various variation of keyword to promote your page.
Note: Make sure your landing page experience should not be different than the main site. As this will play an imperative role init.
Are you doing a link exchange to boost Pagerank? - Bad idea
Are you doing a link exchange because the traffic is likely to convert - Good idea
Are you doing a link exchange to boost your rankings - Bad idea
Are you doing a link exchange because it provides a relevant resource useful to your audience - Good idea
Most people that do link exchanges are using an outdated seo mentality from 10 years ago. They can't accept that things have changed and will continue to change. Links are still valuable (just look at how much referral traffic comes through relevant links) but Google is no longer a simple formula that is easy to trick. You need to be careful and make smarter business decisions. Not every link is a smart link but there still are many good opportunities.
In addition to Harry,
I would say, Just simply use 301 redirect to your new domain; this will bring you not only the traffic of your existing site as well as old site backlinks along with juice of those back links to your site.
In regards to your landing page, if you want to deliver all goodness of old domain to your landing page, that can work as well this can have significant impact on your landing page in relation to SEO and performence of your landing page.
Another, thing to consider, prepare a list of all URLs from old site and add redirect url which you think is relvant for old page, this way it will be easy for you to redirect all your old URLs to new site without suffering any harm.
Just make sure you follow the guidelines and you do it properly. 
In addition to to above i would suggest you to make sure your robot.txt file does not have home or index page as that could be the other reason that Search engines do not index the site.
I suggerst you to adopt the following :
The best way to achieve this is to modify your Document class, set your canonical in your controller, then render it in the header controller.
Edit system/library/document.php
add:
private $canonical; to your class variables up top.
Then add the following methods:
<code>publicfunction setCanonical($url){ $this->canonical = $url;}publicfunction getCanonical(){return $this->canonical;}</code>
In your header controller add:
$this->data['canonical'] = $this->document->getCanonical();
Then you can set your canonical dynamically in the header controller:
<code>if(isset($this->request->get['_route_'])): $canonical_route = $this->request->get['_route_'];else: $canonical_route =''; endif; $this->document->setCanonical($this->data['base']. $canonical_route);</code>
Or you can set it manually in your controllers using the setCanonical method.
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I would go for Ahrefs and Majsitc site Explorer along with Google Webmaster.
In my opinion, use of these would give you a snopysis of new and exsiting backlinks for your site. You can also try MOZ site explorer tool. However, this is relatively new and has less data than the other two.
Wordpress is a powerful piece of software that allows people with minimal knowledge of web design set up a web site fairly quickly. And for personal use it is unsurpassed. However, for business use you have to question whether it is a good choice to use software that is regularly hacked, offers slow performance and requires continual technical attention.
Remember that you are at the whim of other developers, not just for Wordpress itself but for each theme and plugin, who have no relationship with you, and certainly no obligation to you. You rely on them to write secure and professional code, when most of them write it as a hobby.
That’s before you consider that you will be forced to make compromises with the design and operation of the site. Your business is unique and your website should reflect that.
Unless the budget is exceptionally tight, it is often better to get a website developed properly at the start. A website is often the first (and potentially the last) thing people will see about your business. It’s therefore important, and more efficient in the long run to get it right first time!
I suggest you to read the following article it may help you to understand batter which one is batter for you.
My preferrence would be custom solution.
In Addition to Andy list there is another one Called SE Ranking which is quite useful and affordable for small comapings.
Hi
As you rightly mentioned this is due to google penalty. I think, you still need to run a details audit of your backlinks. Most of the time, try to analysi each link on its own. As mostly, one domain gives you good do follow link as well as some sort of toxic links. Off course, you want to keep good one.
Make sure, you explore all of your back links, by using historical data from Majistic link exploerer, Screeming Frog, MOZ link explorer along with Ahref and Google Search Consule.
AT the same time do update all of your site content regardless if its been unqiue or duplicate. In my opinion, this is time consuming and effort taking procdure.
However, we also have seen some great imporvement with other methods such as changing domain. How this can help you, have different domain or different TLD with the same name have same site accessible to new domain and use 301 redirect from old domain to new one. Furthermore, do the same , disaovw the toxic links to your site with old and new domain. Do start your link building excerise get some niche links to balance the loss of back links.
You will see good progress within weeks. We have done this for our many clients.
I hope this will help. If there is any question do leave your comment. Will get back to you.
Amazing efforts by you guys..submitted your questionnaire as well
I reckon you use sub folder instead of subdomain. As subdomin is not suitable for this stype of site. Subdomain also be cosider is a seperate site.
In addition to Mark, External links are those links are pointing out from your site to other domain, subdomain or page.
Hi Use the following
`# Redirect all "not correct" domain to www with https
# (is not important if comes with or without https):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.example.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]
# Redirect all non-ssl to ssl.
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.co.uk/$1 [R,L]`
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I think, you only can access the data or historical data of ranking for your keywords from the day you started tracking of those keywords ( in other words, when you started your subiscription or you added keywords to track for ). from this point to onward, Moz or any other rank checking tool will provide you with historical data for comparison and analysis purposes. As no tool do track position for any keyword without membership
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Here are few points, I beleive you must have in your mind before you take such action:
I just noticed that Moz Prfile is not getting update since couple of days.
Is it Just me or you also having the same issue?
Hi There
Agree with Andy. However if you have many URLs to fo redirect via htaccess you can use this tool just paste your all old urls and define your rule of redirect. it will generate a complete list of new rules and paste that to your htacess file.
Just watched it. Great guide and help. Thanks for sharing
I think you should refrain using mobile number in your local business listing however, Google dose not penalise you for such things. Google itself encourge business to use local phone number which link with business directly.
Here is detail guide for you to understand the why you should not use mobile number in local listing.
https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038177?hl=en-GB
https://www.mightycall.com/blog/avoid-using-a-personal-cell-phone-number-as-a-business-line/