Is anybody using duckduckgo as their search engine?

[brofarops]

Umm, there is just so much wrong with that post it is not funny. Brofarops: until you actually know more about SEO, I would suggest just keeping to the easy questions mate.

William: Please explain what you believe is in error. I am a good listener. If my information and my practice since before the birth of Google is wrong then explain. If not in the forum then send me an email explaining your position... Help me and others understand.

[williamc]

Clay: I disagree with the 99% query of the Big 3 quote, there are over 700,000 SEs and directories AND more coming online.

699,990 of them do not have any traffic to send in the least. Wasting any time on each specifically is doing any client a major disservice.

One of the Big 3 is only reading the title tag and making up their own description, another is reading the title, description, and x-meta keywords not the actual meta keywords, and the third is feeding off the other two.

And all of the others use the same methods of gathering data as the big three. They spider a page, index it in their own way, and display it according to their algo's. Again, wasting time on each specifically is a disservice to the client.

With over 700,000 Little SEs and directories the optimization should be robot.txt to fit "all" or atleast the majority.

Read above re: disservice.

SEO optimization in todays world is more than meta tags or ASCII coding, rather its ISP or UTF

ISP? UTF? The encoding of a page means less than zero in the SERPS. Hosting ISP Location has some effect but minimal, not enough to worry over in the least.

Many SEs have their own PRs, forums, advertising, and so on within their portals.

And this has what to do with how you optimize a site exactly, with the exception of PR which is a calculation of links at Google only?

[deepsand]

With over 700,000 Little SEs and directories the optimization should be robot.txt to fit "all" or at least the majority.

Robots.txt is an user agent agnostic standard. A crawler/robot/spider is either compliant and well behaved or not. Trying to design for all of those which may not be both is an exercise in futility.

[brofarops]

WILLIAM: Thank You for your opinion and I will take your words into consideration from an SEO consult standpoint. The actual topic however is about DuckDuckGo and use thereof. I use it, and many other search engines including SuperPages. I know several individuals and companies that use Iquick Itorrentz and others. Again William, I appreciate your opinion and to get back on topic.

[deepsand]

In the interest of determining the depth and breadth of DDG's database, I would again ask if has anyone has ever seen DuckDuckBot visit either WebProWorld or their own site(s)?

[brofarops]

DDG-Bots shows up in some of my counters

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DDG-Bots shows up in some of my counters

[williamc]

I show only one site out of +- 20 I watch with their referer

[deepsand]

I've yet to see DDG show up here at WPW.