Optimizing pages for different search engines

anyone else use page critic?

[allybongo]

Using webposition to optimise pages, all with unique content. Every page is optimised for 1 keyword and duplicated for 8 engines. I used altavista as a default engine and once optimised as much as poss I then duplicated it for the other engines.

However every page came up on page critic the same no matter which engine I selected. Surely there would be a difference? What's the point? Is it just that altavista seems to cover everything and if I did it for another engine first would I get different results?

Sorry if I haven't made the question clear, I couldn't think of how to word it!

Btw, I dont use webposition to submit, I do that by hand.

[allybongo]

Sorry, also forgot to mention, I've only been in my new job a week and this is how they've been doing it. I'm trying to reassess the best way to go about it, so any tips would be helpful!

[agerhart]

You need to abandon your current strategy for optimizing, as there are more beneficial ways to go about SEO.

First of all, do not use WebPosition Critic to optimize your pages. Instead, read through all of these forums and you will find more information than you will find in 100 of WebPosition type programs.

WebmasterWorld - the Search Engine World [webmasterworld.com]

Secondly, as you will learn in the above forums, do not duplicate a page a number of times for each search engine. If the page is optimized correctly and you concentrate on the off page criteria too, you can have it rank well in all engines without duplication.

If you need to find out about doorway pages, keyword research, or other optimization topics, simply search for them here: WebmasterWorld SiteSearch [searchengineworld.com] Almost every topic you can think of has been covered here, so read up, and you will realize that WebPosition Critic does not know as much as you do! ;)

[allybongo]

thanks agerhart. I think the gist that I've been getting from reading the forums is lots of unique relevant content, optimise existing pages for keywords and generally keep it as clean as possible.

I have to promote x amount of sites in my job and may have to dedicate more time to monitoring the positions and less to actually optimising 80 pages! (It took a long time, believe me!)

[Robert Charlton]

>>Every page is optimised for 1 keyword...<<

If I take you literally, you're optimizing for individual words. You probably should be thinking in terms of phrases... or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

[piskie]

Page Critic is only useful as a measuring stick because that's what it is.
It will tell you the percentagage that it measured for each zone within the page. These are finite percentages and as such they are fixed.

Also I agree with Agerhart about your strategy.

[allybongo]

>> Every page is optimised for 1 keyword <<

Sorry, they are phrases not individual words.