> The more popular Google is as a traffic source, the more people pay attention to getting that traffic. Website owners put effort into specifically making Goog

> The more popular Google is as a traffic source, the more people pay attention to getting that traffic. Website owners put effort into specifically making Google search results good I see this a lot and while it's true, it's also true that it's not all that difficult to keep the googlebot happy, you'd still be trying to keep crawlers happy if Google wasn't the most popular search engine, and, in fact, what you have to do for the google crawler is basically exactly the same as what you have to do for everyone else[1] (and not in the sense that everyone else just follows Google's lead in what they require because it's all pretty straightforward and generic advice and is, again, not all that difficult to follow). [1] http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fba23a http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/webmaster-guidelines-30fb...