The SEO Game that so many webmasters like to play daily, might want to take a closer look at the blogs filling up the search engines. Bloggers seem to have it all figured out and they’re the ones that are driving the results in all 3 of the major search engines. Most know the big 3 as Google, Yahoo, and Bing (formerly known as MSN). Outside of these 3 powerful search engines, things go downhill for the most part. I’m sure you and your friends could name 5 to 10 more search engines, but none of them really have the reach as Bing, Google, and Yahoo give their users. The 3 big search engines online are free to use. It costs nothing extra to have access to these huge databases; which all of them have collected over the years.
The bloggers know how to work in and out of these search engines pretty well. They learn all sorts of little tricks that get their links on the first page or listed first. Bloggers that can devote time each day to get a link near the top for the search results, will generally get rewarded over time with the Page Rank numbers that Google gives out or the quality and targeted traffic that arrives on their blog via search engines. If bloggers will just keep their eyes open daily and practice searching for things in the search engines, they can establish their own tricks of the trade or SEO tips. I have been blogging almost 5 years now and more than likely I will learn something new today and probably a few things before the week is over. A lot of people have been relying on bloggers to shape the search engines and I would imagine this will continue forever or as long as we have the Internet.