Brett Tabke's Successful Site in 12 Months in Google Alone/ Quick Rank

Any suggested updates or changes? Plus- moving pages.

[Crystal Pegasus]

QUESTION 1

I have just been re-reading Brett Tabke's wonderful words of wisdom- "Successful Site in 12 Months in Google Alone" and "Brett's Quick Rank".

Noticing that they were posted in 2002 I was wondering if anyone has any suggested updates, changes, additions etc. that would be applicable now it is 2006?

It would be great if Brett himself could comment.

But I'm sure many other experienced people who may have ideas too and I'm certain that there are many others like myself, who would also appreciate the advice!

I don't know how to post links to them, but if anyone else knows how, that would be great, as others may like to read them.

QUESTION 2

Also, does anyone know of any ways to move some pages of an established site (earning well in Adsense) to a new site, but retain any of the page rank we have established? Basically not to have to start at the bottom all over again. I don't know if there is any way, but any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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[Alioc]

One thing I'm pretty sure is that it's getting harder and harder in my experiment. It was easier to get a site indexed higher in the old days before and around 2000. So much competition in which everyone talks SEO.

[ogletree]

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Read the "Wavers" from bretts blog.
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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:03 pm (utc) on June 17, 2006]
[edit reason] no copied in content please...even from me...lol [/edit]

[annej]

I think now it's not so much an article a day as to have unique information that will get noticed. Content is still important but I have found fewer new articles but ones that are unique information are best for me. It takes me several days to put together a new article. If you could write one a day and still be unique and interesting go ahead. I just can't.

I also do some research on what people are interested in by looking at stats on what phrases get a lot of searches. Then I write about that but with a unique twist.

Also it might work better to launch the site before 100 pages. Just be sure there are no dead links or under construction pages. Building gradually rather than launching big might work better with the sandbox effect. The same with link trading. I don't think there is a problem with trading a few links but do it gradually, don't launch with a bunch of ready made inbound links.

But for the most part there is so much good info in those 26 steps I'd start with them and then adjust a little based on changes since the article was written.

One thing that wasn't talked about much back then is the power of the long tail. But of course posting an article a day would bring about a lot of long tail search possibilities.

I don't have quick rank in from of me. Would you post a link?

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Two questions:

Is this discussion in the right forum?

I know this is Brett's forum but is it right to copy his whole blog entry here?

[Marcia]

One thing that wasn't talked about much back then is the power of the long tail. But of course posting an article a day would bring about a lot of long tail search possibilities.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.

It just wasn't given much attention, but it's always existed. It didn't have the name "long tail" way back when, but there were plenty of people pursuing the concept, and in fact, while he didn't call it that, Brett himself was preaching the doctrine right here in the forums as far back as I can remember (which is a long, long time).

How Brett put it was that 100 pages that get 1 targeted visitor each is better than just 1 dynamite page that gets 100 visitors. That was the long tail, it was always right and still is, it always did lead to conversions and still does.

Put together with what Brett's posted in the "blog" it's a formula for a long term safety net.

Added:

It isn't just Google alone, nowadays. Verbosity and diversity are right now the key to success with MSN alone.

[jk3210]

<<How Brett put it was that 100 pages that get 1 targeted visitor each is better...>>

What a coincidence. Just the other day I was searching for that graphic he used to have on SEworld that (as I remember) had the arrow pointing to the red "money pages." Couldn't even find it in The Wayback Machine.

[Crystal Pegasus]

Hi Annej and everyone,

As requested, here is Brett's Quick Rank (updated version 2002) The original version was a bit different, so I wondered if it has changed again after all this time.

Inbound link text: 10 points.
title: 10 points
domain name: 7 points
large h1-h2 headings: 5 points
first sentence of first paragraph 5 points
path or filename: 4 points
proximity (multi kws): 4
beginning of a sentence 1.5 points
bold or italic text: 1 points
usage in text: 1 point
title attribute: 1 point
alt tag: .5 point
meta descrip: .5 points
meta keywords: .05 point

I did post this in another forum Annej, but it was moved. Not sure that it was any more relevant where I posted it really... I didn't know where to put it!

[annej]

I agree Marcia, the longtail just didn't have the great name back then. I've known for years that I was getting a lot of visitors from specific search phrases but it didn't really sink in how long the long tail is until I looked beyond the more popular search phrases and found my site stats showed visitors were finding my pages through many thousands of different search phrases.

Crystal, I remember that list for on page items. The importance of each item changes a bit with changing algos but it's well worth attending to each of them.

Let's get back to the original question. Are there other items in the original 26 that are outdated? My feeling is that they are all still good with slightly different slants on a few.