Aside from focusing ourselves to optimize our websites in Google, how about we optimize it to other search engines like Yahoo, Bing, Ask, Dogpile, etc. For me, it is possible. But there's a catch. If you know your target market and your targeted traffic to a search engine, that's an advantage. But what makes you think that optimizing your website to other search engines is really worth?
Since Google is mostly used by webmasters and bloggers to generate more backlinks and targeted traffic, we can do the same to Yahoo, Bing, DogPile, Ask and other lower types of search engines. But first we need to know how to index our websites to these search engines.
Google has their own program called Google Webmaster Tools, which is very easy to deal with, and to submit your URL for indexing your site. Indexing is very important because without this, your optimizing job will be useless. Yahoo and Bing have their own webmaster tool, same with Ask and DogPile, but it's too difficult to use.
If you also know about search engine marketing (SEM), we can only submit our website by just including the URL there and to be included in their index, but you only have less than 10% chance that your site might get indexed to these search engines without doing it manually, unless you hire a professional search engine marketer.
If we want to index our website and to perform search optimizing, we should do it manually, not using some auto-submission software, because it is considered as a "Black Hat" style, which search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, DogPile and Ask are against it, because it will only destroy their reputation. We must not do this illegally, but rather to take it slow but sure in indexing and optimizing our websites to search engines, so that it will be considered "White Hat" and SEO-friendly too.











































