Can Your Site Rank Well in All Four Major Search Engines?
One of the most frequent concerns when it comes to SEO is whether or not your website is optimized to meet the needs of each of the four major search engines. Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask.com all rank things differently, but not so differently that you have to dedicate specific SEO to each of them. The differences in how these search engines work can cause a bit of confusion, especially when it comes to optimizing well for all four of them at the same time.
Optimize Your Website For Yahoo! Search
When building your site up with search engine optimization in mind, it’s easy to forget all the other sites that aren’t Google. Understandably so, as much of your search engine oriented traffic will be from the big G anyways. But for the amount of time it takes to put a little more focus into a few things, or even just add a few additional touches, you can make your site that much more appealing to the Yahoo! bot that will be crawling through your pages.
Optimize Your Website For MSN Live Search
MSN/Live is considered to be one of the most abused search engines currently operating. While i can bring you some traffic, it’s probably not going to compare to the traffic you receive from Google or Yahoo!. While this doesn’t mean you should ignore MSN/Live completely, you don’t need to tailor your focuses specifically to gaining visitors from their search engine. Much of what you do for other search engines will actually pay off just as well on MSN/Live, however there are a few tips that won’t hurt you to take advantage of for those extra few visitors you receive.
10 Tips For Refreshing Your SEO Knowledge
New to SEO or just looking for a quick refresher course? Perhaps you’re looking to point someone in the right direction so they don’t take the wrong first step forward?
Taking Advantage Of Page Strength
We’ve all come to accept the fact that Google really is the top dog when it comes to the search engine world, but that doesn’t mean that their tools are the best way to find out your sites visibility and reach. Relying on one source for this information is never smart anyways, the guys over at SEOmoz created what they call the “Page Strength Tool”. Where Google relies only on its own information, the Page Strength Tool pulls its information from not only Google, but Yahoo, Wikipedia, DMOZ, Alexa, de.licio.us, and Technorati to compile its information. Read the rest of this entry
Is Yahoo! Site Directory Worth It?
You’re building up a reputable site and you’re looking for new places to gain authoritative links from when you come across the Yahoo! Site Directory. Sounds perfect. Yahoo! host it so clearly it’s got to have some pull, and it definitely does. But what bites you is the cost. $299 to SUBMIT a site to their directory. That doesn’t mean that they’ll actually accept your site. If your site is of adult content, then double that price. Plus, it’s an annually reoccurring price to boot!
