Super Mod

What search engines do you target when you are doing SEO? Do you only focus on Google or do you look at optimize for Yahoo! as well as MSN? Personally, I believe that if you optimize well for Google then anything you get from Yahoo! and MSN are bonuses.

hysteriaweb

I tend to optimize for MSN and Yahoo as Google can bet an impossible feat which rarely reaps benefits in a timely manner.

Super Mod

Do you really think that's true? I find that as long as you don't try and target the most competitive keywords that Google can be a lot easier than MSN and Yahoo to target. What sort of keywords are you targetting?

Jimmeh

In my opinion, only Google matters. The rest of the search engines are slow to crawl you as well as slow to give you much traffic. Google is the one getting hundreds of millions of searches a day.

ed

Well, Google users tend to be more net savvy, which makes it harder to target users. However, they do have a large userbase - you definitely can't count Google out.

Google: experianced users.
Y!/MSN: newer users.

It's all about who you want to target.

Max

Generally, I optimize for Google only simply because by optimizing for Google, you're optimising for most other search engines. If your site is fully Google friendly, chances are it's more than friendly enough for the others. On one of my high traffic sites, Google sends nearly 90% of the SE traffic.

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Super Mod

I also want to add that more and more search engines have you optimize for the same sort of thing, so optimizing for one search engine is basically optimizing for all search engines. At least this is what I think.