Comments on: Quick Post: Organic Traffic Optimization? Doing Agnostic SEO

By: Daniel R

Daniel R — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:00:28 +0000

No worries. “Agnostic” has been used (rightly or not) to mean “not specific”, “no preference for” or “work with anything”.

It’s definitely “business-speak” for sure.

For example, if an IT Software firm is “vendor agnostic”, their software would work any vendor with no particular preference.

For “Agnostic SEO”, I’m thinking of thinking of SEO beyond Search Engines like Google, simply optimizing content for distribution, relevancy and “findability” be it on Yelp, Flickr, Slideshare, YouTube or whatever. All of these websites have a search function, which content should be optimized for.

By: George

George — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:37:05 +0000

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is meant by “agnostic” when dealing with search engines? I’ve never heard this used in any way beyond a religious philosophy (or lack thereof).

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:19:31 +0000

This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Post: Organic Traffic Optimization? Doing Agnostic SEO at Emergence Media. Thanks for informative article

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:48:51 +0000

Thank You

By: Oodle Rolls out Personal Search at Emergence Media

Oodle Rolls out Personal Search at Emergence Media — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:16:27 +0000

[...] Indeed, as mentioned in “Organic Traffic Optimization? Doing Agnostic SEO“, the growing lists of vertical search engines places emphasis on the need at ensuring a website’s content is indexed beyond Google, Yahoo and MSN. Content should also be looked at how competitively positioned it is on vertical search tools. For example, people doing online dating search can be very picky – on ethnicity, religion, age, interests – does the profile easily lists all of such data? Is the data listed in a way people would search for? Available on feeds to engines like Oodle? Publicly (like LinkedIn does now)? Note that there are also privacy issues like “What control does the user has to be indexed by a third-party?” [...]