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.
Of course, then again, if you do a search for hotels, youll find that http://hotels.com 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...