Can you make your site appear different to one search engine?

[Miop]

Is it possible without 'cheating' to show a different index page to one search engine, while showing a different one to the others?
I ask because on one engine at least, only my index shows. Optimising my site for Google means that I have made each page as distinctive as possible, with the index page being only a very basic guide to what is within the site. It has worked on Google, but on the SE where only my index page is crawled, my site won't appear for any of my keywords.
My original web page which was keyword rich was much better on this SE but meant that I never got a high ranking on G because the kw's were too 'diluted'.
Is there any way I can show this SE a different index page more like the original, or would that involve something unethical?
Thanks

[jmartin]

From what I've read in each SE's guidelines, its deemed spam like to sniff out their crawlers and to present them with different content or a different page than a normal visiting user.

More than likely you would eventually get burned.

Do you have a sitemap with linkage all the way through your site? These are known to help out the crawlers go through your site.

Have you considered paid inclusion (guaranteed crawling not ranking) for ask, inktomi, etc.?

Good luck!

-J Martin

[Josh_F]

I think you run the risk of being preceived as unethical doing this, although there may be no way for the search engines to know this unless they spoof their spiders.

The real question seems to be why your other pages aren't showing up on the other search engine.

If you've updated your site in the last couple of months, wait one or two more to give the search engines time to adjust their index. Results often lag the actual spidering by a couple of months.

Presumably your links to other pages in your site are static (not created with Javascript or some other client-side technique). If in doubt, add "hard" links at the bottom of the page like those here that deal with "terms of service" and the "privacy policy".

If you've run into problems with the search engines before, perhaps for spamming or other perceived abuse, you may be on their list of "unfriendlies".

Hope this helps.

- Josh