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Old 07-06-2006, 12:11 AM   #1
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Default SEO article: Google vs MSN vs Yahoo

A link I picked up from the Search Engine Watch newsletter this morning discusses the futility (or otherwise) of optimising your pages for a particular search engine.

http://www.seobook.com/relevancy/

Also includes a link to the Yahoo link analyser at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ which may be useful if you have a database driven site - since Yahoo baulks at too-complex arguments which may be competition for their own commercial ventures. There are links to several other tools as well.
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Old 07-06-2006, 05:41 AM   #2
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A link I picked up from the Search Engine Watch newsletter this morning discusses the futility (or otherwise) of optimising your pages for a particular search engine.

http://www.seobook.com/relevancy/
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due to sucking at link analysis they place too much weight on the page content
That is exactly the advantage for me of MSN - sometimes you just want page content no matter how obscure and no matter how many people link to a page. That is when I go to MSN - I've frequently found pages there that Google "could not find" - meaning it didn't index them or deemed them too "impopular".

I really hope MSN will develop its own strengths rather than copying the others.

   
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I really hope MSN will develop its own strengths rather than copying the others.
We don't need another Google, so I hope they do!

Dogpile is a meta search engine that searches other search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN (and a few others) which I find useful as they are all slightly different.

   
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Also includes a link to the Yahoo link analyser at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ which may be useful if you have a database driven site - since Yahoo baulks at too-complex arguments which may be competition for their own commercial ventures.
I have used Yahoo's siteexplorer ever since it was launched, the most useful feature being the backlink listing. Unlike Google, it shows all the backlinks it has indexed.

Useful article but all we really need to remember is (from SE Guide):

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The key to providing search spiders with a strong on-page experience lies in presenting search spiders with a well designed, topically focused site. Again, remember the four basic on-page areas; titles, tags, text and site structure, creating documents that are friendly to all four search engines is not terribly difficult.

   
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