Focus your seo efforts on google and the rest will follow

Focus Your SEO Efforts On Google And The Rest Will Follow

When optimizing your website for the search engines, you really have three choices on which one to optimize for Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Each search engine has certain criteria that is emphasized more and the factors that help you rank well differ from search engine to search engine.

For example, do a search for the term sports and youll find that ESPN holds the top spot in Google, while Yahoo! Sports holds the top spot in Yahoo and Fox Sports holds the top spot in MSN...

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When optimizing your website for the search engines, you really have three choices on which one to optimize for Google, Yahoo, or MSN. Each search engine has certain criteria that is emphasized more and the factors that help you rank well differ from search engine to search engine.

For example, do a search for the term sports and youll find that ESPN holds the top spot in Google, while Yahoo! Sports holds the top spot in Yahoo and Fox Sports holds the top spot in MSN.

Of course, then again, if you do a search for hotels, youll find that has the top spot in all three search engines.

So whats a person to do when optimizing their websites?

My advice is to focus your attention on optimizing your website to rank well in Google. Yahoo and MSN combined dont send as much traffic as Google will if you hold the top spot. Since Google gets nearly half (about 49%) of ALL search engine traffic, its makes sense that youd want to focus your efforts on Google.

Also, since Google has the reputation for providing the most relevant results, Yahoo and MSN tend to always be playing catch up. So whats working well in Google will likely work for both Yahoo and MSN.

However, if you optimize for just Yahoo or MSN, youre not likely to rank as well in Google.

One thing I also like about Google is how fast theyre currently updating their index. You can get a website up, get a few links, and be indexed in less than a week. Yahoo and MSN tend to be a lot slower in getting your website indexed. Also, the rankings change less often in Yahoo and MSN, which is great if you hold the top ranking, but not so great when youre trying to climb up in the rankings. With Googles frequently updating index, you get more feedback on how well your search engine optimization efforts are paying off.

 

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