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Is it good to build a site targeted to one search engine.
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timjpriebe posted this at 13:40—7th December 2006.
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Nope. A good site is built so that any search engine can easily pick it up. Including Google.
That's my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.
Tim
http://www.tandswebdesign.com
Ruth posted this at 09:17—8th December 2006.
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The site is targeted at audience, people, and these people can be brought to your site by different means. Of course, your can optimize your site for one se, but only if you're sure you won't lose potential clients.
Ian Taylor posted this at 10:27—8th December 2006.
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No not at all. It is not a good practice to be limited to only one search engine. People according to their requirements and preferences use different search engines like those who are associated with Microsoft by default get MSN as a search engine, those using services of Yahoo! use Yahoo's search engine. For accuracy and high web traffic people prefer using Google.
IMO you can focus on only one search engine and try to index your site in maximum search engines.
franke1 posted this at 14:37—8th December 2006.
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I think sometimes it may workout if we design the website to target one search engine like google.
timjpriebe posted this at 14:47—8th December 2006.
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But what about when Google changes? Every time they roll out some major change in its algorithm, you hear tons of webmasters complaining about how they are suddenly losing tons of money. The reason? They've optimized their website for Google, and nothing else.
Those who set up their website to be easily indexed by any search engine, have plenty of good content and good coding practices don't have a problem.
Tim
http://www.tandswebdesign.com
Megan posted this at 15:31—8th December 2006.
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I agree with what others have said, but the ranking factors for big search engines do tend to overlap quite considerably. If you target one of them chances are you'll be doing well with the others too.
What Tim pointed out also applies to focusing on one method for your SEO strategy. So if you decide that reciprocal links are going to be the best way to improve your ranking, and spend all your time on building reciprocals, you will have a problem when the SE decides to devalue them. This is another thing that happens when the algorythm changes and sites drop - they complain loudly, but what really happend is that they were relying on a now outdated strategy to build up their rankings. Diversify your techniques and you won't have this problem (as much).
Megan
My web design blog
VibeBot posted this at 01:34—10th December 2006.
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Nope, you have to be versitle. What if that site goes down one day? Everything isn't permanent. Build you site to be compatible in every search engine. Thats the way to go.
demopaul posted this at 08:53—20th December 2006.
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Do you really find that much difference between SE approaches I mean if you optimize your site for Google and have a good ranking there, you'll be ranked high by Yahoo! as well.
bluecircle posted this at 05:23—26th December 2006.
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I base all my SEO off of Google's guidelines, but this method will give you good ranks for all the other SEs too.
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OldWelshGuy posted this at 10:40—26th December 2006.
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Personally I have never built a site for a search engine in my life. Funny thing is, they can't buy
I prefer to build for people. 
On a more serious note, you should not worry about this search engine or that search engine, and should build a balanced site that is rich in content, easy to navigate, and clearly laid out. People AND search engines will love this, and then you can just work on the off site stuff which again will help rankings
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