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Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply, the video content idea is a good one.  My main concern right now is not differentiation as I am confident we can do that.  I have built up a couple of other successful trading sites including Dailyfx.com when I was at FXCM, informedtrades.com (my youtube videos have millions of views), and more recently learnbonds.com.

While I know a lot about writing and promoting content I don't know a whole lot about the technical side of SEO.  I know the basics, use the YOAST seo plugin etc but nothing more.  Have you or anyone else reading this ever bought an existing site and if so what where the initial steps that you took to make sure that everything was setup correctly from an SEO standpoint?  Any additional thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks
Dave

Hi,

I recently purchased the site www.forexnews.com.  The domain is more than 10 years old and used to have a ton of content and traffic.  A couple of years ago it was purchased by another firm who took down all the old content and made it into a news aggregation site.  I am going to try and build the traffic back up by adding back original content and leveraging the domain authority that the site has retained.

Besides doing some keyword research, building links, and writing original content is there any advice out there that the community can give me on what else to start with?  Any resources that you can point me to which talk about this type of thing would also be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave

Hi Keri,

Thanks for the response!  I am looking at the attached page screenshot which shows 9 links.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Dave

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Hi,

I have a wordpress blog at www.learnbonds.com.  I am looking through open site explorer and and showing only 9 internal links on my report.  I have hundreds of internal links on the site so I am wondering why they are not showing up?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave

Thanks for the response mike I think those are some good general SEO tips.

Specifically what I am looking for however is advice on how to handle content which is similar in nature but updated on a regular basis like the example pieces I sited.

Any additional advice on that subject would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave

I have a market news and education site focused on the bond market.  Each day we have an end of day market wrapup piece.  We also have several weekly pieces as well as pieces that come out once a month.

My question is how should I handle these from an SEO standpoint?  When someone searches for "bond market update" for example I want my latest piece to show up in the results.

Similarly when someone searches for "savings bond interest rate forecast" I would also like the report for that month to be the one that they find.

Here are two examples of what I am talking about:

http://www.learnbonds.com/us-savings-bond-forecast-3272012/

and

http://www.learnbonds.com/bond-market-recap-41712/

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks

Dave

Great thanks much appreciated.

Ok great thank you.  Should I not worry about the google webmaster issue either?

Thanks

Dave

When I first setup my site the domain was learnbonds.com.  I moved hosts a couple of months ago and as part of the process I asked them to make the site show as www.learnbonds.com  which they did.

Now however when I goto www.learnbonds.com in open site explorer it says there is no data.  When I enter learnbonds.com into open site explorer it gives me data but says that the site has been redirected to the www. version which shows no data.

Also in google webmaster when I try to set the preferred domain as the www. version it gives me the following message:

Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://www.learnbonds.com/. Please verify http://www.learnbonds.com/.

I am concerned that this is hurting my SEO and would appreciate any advice you can give.

Thanks

Dave