How Many Searchengines To Be Optimized?

[Sathish]

hi every one,

totally to become an master in SEO totally how many searchengines are there to be optimized (major SE alone).
thank you

[Brett_Tabke]

Inktomi (partly-msn, partly-Lycos, partly-hotbot)
Lycos - mostly-Fast, partly-ink
Google.
Altavista.
Excite. (if they update again this decade).
Northernlight. I got a hit from them in 1999.
Fast (alltheweb, lycos, sympatico, euro engines).

Straight up? We are down to your basic Google-Alta-Fast world. And we are about to lose one of those...

[Black Knight]

There's a lot of them if you include the European ones for either global selling or for specific marketing needs.

You can be a pro (of the run of the mill kind) with just the three mentioned of course, but I'd add that you need to be able to craft great (acceptable) descriptions for the major directories too (Yahoo!, ODP and Looksmart).

Then, also you need to be a good strategist with the PPC engines, (Goto.com, and others), able to maximise (relevant) traffic for the minimum of costs.