One of the most common questions I get is whether I ‘just SEO for Google’ or something similar.<\/p>\n
Prospective clients have the impression that optimizing can be done specifically for one search engine or that SEO that helps in ranking in Yahoo won’t help in Google.<\/p>\n
There’s something to that, but not in the way they’re thinking. For example, on-page factors are taken into account by Yahoo faster than Google.<\/p>\n
By that I mean that you’ll see a faster payoff in Yahoo rankings when you make (good) on-site SEO changes.<\/p>\n
Because Google is slower to reward on-site, and even off-site, SEO work, many see the quicker ranking movement in Yahoo as a long-term effect.<\/p>\n
In other words, because Google’s policy is to hold off and give full credit for your SEO only over time, they tend to miss the effect.<\/p>\n
It happens slowly and sometimes long after the work is done. Therefore it appears that Yahoo does reward the SEO changes while Google doesn’t.<\/p>\n
It’s an understandable misconception when people observe what seems to be a clear Cause And Effect relationship.<\/p>\n
Good SEO, good content, good keyword work will benefit you in all search engines. But keep in mind that the rate of return will be slower in Google probably.<\/p>\n
Patience is needed in the search engine world. Remember, SEO is a long term marketing strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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