I think seo is same for all search engines. Visitors is all about how the search engine crawlers crawls your site.
Glad to hear you think Ask-visitors convert better. But do you have any clue how to get more of such visitors? Since I don't really sell anything (other then advertisement space), I guess you aren't talking to me. Still, the thing is that Ask probably uses pretty much the same factors as google or yahoo does: key-words on page, key-words in links, links to your site from trusted sites, some variation of Page Rank probably etc. So when you optimize for google, you optimize for ask, roughly. The weight of the different aspects may differ, but it would be very foolish to optimize for Ask at the expense of Google, because google sends in more visitors and I'm not about to risk that to try and optimize for Ask.
I can't really say that I SEO for anyone inparticular myself.. I just read A LOT on the subject, and implement whichever portions I can figure out .. However a lot of folks tell me to make sure that I remember to optimize for yahoo and not just google... If they were the same, why would so many super affilaites chant that so often? ... Any views here?
[slightly off topic] Well, if 'super affiliates' means people who join affiliate-link-schemes, you've been rubbing elbows with the wrong crowd. Anyhow - to the extent that the algorithms for google and yahoo are different, optimizing for yahoo probably means getting less than optimal for google. So if you are ready to trade in one for the other - try optimizing for both. On this forum I've seen some people who say they rank well for MSN and not for any of the others - which probably means they stuff keywords. I did a quick google-search on this and the closest thing to good advice I saw was: get keywords in your domain-name/directory-name/file-name. Since that's good advice even for google: optimizing isn't different for yahoo and google... But if you get into the gritty details like 'how many keywords can I stuff in a file-name' and not get a penalty for it - very likely that at three keywords google will already get suspicious where yahoo may start ignoring you at four (just hypothetical, I don't go beyond two keywords myself, because I also want people to be able to type my URLs) Anyhow, if that scenario is correct, sticking to three keywords is a good idea, because you don't get a penalty form either search-engine. Most SEO-rules for people who don't make SEO the first priority (people are the first priority) work well for google and reasonably well for yahoo. Since MSN is easier to spam - it is harder to rank for using the above rules. As for ASK - doesn't seem anybody knows yet, does it.
Sorry, newer to the all around affiliate world, in gambling type portals, a super affiliate is someone that makes HUGE amounts of money, makes affiliate programs stand up and take notice... etc.. IMO a super affiliate in the gambling industry is making AT LEASTE 15gz a month.
I think SEO of Ask.com and Google are not different as My one co.nr site is 17 on Ask and 27th on Google for the keyword "freewebspace" The real joke is that only one page has been indexed by both
http://whois.domaintools.com/co.nr shows no information so more than likely this is freaking Google out. Another issue is it seems either you are a DMOZ editor who has sold their soul or you bought one... DMOZ: 23 listings That is pretty amazing when many here cannot get one site listed.