We all know that Google is the big one (for today, anyway) to work your SEO magic for but should you take the time to optimize for more than one search engine online?

If you search key phrases on Google and on another search engine such as Yahoo you’ll often see rather different results.  Some people find that their efforts net great results on one and not such great results on the other.

Different Search Engine, Different Algorithm

Different search engines use different algorithms with their search engine spiders when determining which sites are relevant to various subjects.  One search engine might be more apt to look at your header and others might look at your keyword density for articles.Another might take a strong look at whether you have images and meta descriptions and how often your page is updated.

The key is to write good content so that when the visitors come, they’ll want to buy something!  If your content is relevant, the search engines will find you and it’s better to get targeted traffic that converts than to get empty volumes of traffic.

In terms of focusing, optimizing for Google is a wise move as it will probably give you the best bang for your time and money. You’ll find that if you optimize for Google and really concentrate on high quality content, you’ll naturally get good results with other top search engines.  It’s difficult to optimize for everyone and a tweak might move you higher on the results page on one search engine but could give you a consequence of losing placement on another and that loss could translate to big money for you.

The only way to really optimize for more than one is to design multiple websites and optimize each with seperate techniques specifically for a search engine.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

When you create a new website or blog, you’re anxious to see some results and if you don’t do anything to get noticed it could take time for the search engine spiders to find you and index you. Optimising for search engines will help you get indexed faster. Here are a few tips to help you get noticed quickly.

Submit Your URLS to Search Engines

Here are places where you can manually submit:

http://www.google.com/addurl/

http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx

Social Bookmarking

Go to sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us and bookmark your site. These sites will bring traffic to your site as well. You can also get traffic and attention by trying to get noticed on places like Technorati, Twitter and Plurk. Be sure if you have other sites, you link from them to your new site thorugh blogrolls or link pages. Blog about your new site as well on your other online homes and write a few articles for article sites with links to your new site in the resource box. Spending a bit of time getting search engines to notice your website could shave days or even weeks off the process of getting organic search engine results.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Should you use online answer sites to drive traffic to your website? Many people use sites like Yahoo Answers to try to increase their SEO value and sales. Today’s blog post will tell you how this can help you but it will also tell you about the potential associated problems with using sites like these to try to generate traffic to your website.

Using Yahoo Answers To Drive Traffic

Answer sites like Yahoo and others give users the ability to ask questions and other users the ability to answer them. You can use them to answer questions already posted and you can ask your own questions in an effort to raise interest in a specific topic.

If you search for questions related to your niche, you could reference your site or affiliate code in the answers section. This can increase your sales and SEO as many of these sites index in the search engines for anchored keywords.

Not only might people browsing those questions find you but you could also be indexed in the search engines for keywords in your post as well as the fact that the link to your site will count towards your search engine page rank.

Some of these sites have points associated with them that are awarded by the community, which can elevate your standing in the community and get you homepage placement.

Caution: Don’t Spam

Be wary of being banned for spamming if you use these sites excessively or push your links to others without good reasons.  The key to using these sites is to provide helpful information. You might choose to answer questions without always referring to your URL, for instance. Sometimes you might choose to refer to other URLs not owned by you to add extra value.

For example, if you are in the dieting niche you might choose to answer questions in that category. The same would apply to technology related questions for the technology niche. You wouldn’t want to simply push your url where it isn’t warranted. Refer to the terms of service when joining sites like these. These types of social networking sites can be helpful and useful if used wisely.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008