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Should You Optimize Your Site For Each Individual Search Engine?

Went Hot: November 2, 2007 - 10:35 am
Posted By: Lyndon 612 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: SEO

from the page, "Well, Google emphasizes links but Yahoo likes keyword density and MSN prefers that you sacrifice a goat, while Ask requires jelly beans and argghhhhghhghgh..."

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from igorthetroll 612 days ago # - show/hide this comment

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Okay Sphinn Doctor, I concede.
You'll make a believer out of me, one day.

from Jill 610 days ago #

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Since this whole post was written with the misunderstanding that Shari was actually saying to do those things, it's difficult to recommend (Sphinn) it. I don't actually believe there are people out there these days optimizing for different engines anymore (since at least 1999).

Anyone who knows Shari knows she was being sarcastic, which she explains here at Sphinn in the topic regarding her article.

from AutomotiveSEO 610 days ago #

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There was a similar, less detailed story a couple of months ago that I wrote. Not as good as this one, but touches the basic points: Whether to Optimize for Google Alone or to Mix Efforts.

from g1smd 609 days ago #

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Ack, I have never done individual things for specific search engines on bot-specific versions of pages.

Far too much work, and much risk of bots seeing Duplicate Content.

from gunjanpandya 609 days ago #

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We should to do SEO for rank in all major 3 search engines. We should to use general SEO stretegies for our website, which is useful for getting our website listing in all 3 major search engines. We should't ingnore any one search engine.