You walk into a dark room and the all-seeing, all-doing "Cheif Algorithm Directors" of Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN are sitting there.

All 4 of them have been hypnotised.

It's post Yahoo-update November 2005.
It's post Jagger update.

You are allowed to ask ONE (and only one) SEO question, to ONE of them - and they will tell you the truth.

Knowing that the correct question to the correct person could be the edge that you need to beat your competitors in the long term - you should think carefully.

My question to you is, which *one* person would you target and what would your *one* question be.

To come clean, I did ask this same question over at the WPW forums a few months ago but to be honest a *lot* of things have changed since then.

I do have 2 points to this post.

1) I am trying to gauge which Search Engine the people here at SEW see as the most important to their long term success. (Has the G IPO and appetite for relevancy changed people's interests? for example...)

2) I am trying to gauge which single element of SEO people regard as most important to their long term success.

Please be as precise as possible in your post, rather than answering along the lines of "I would ask the MSN Algorithm Director for the password to his Algorithm Safe."

I would ask Sergey if could show me the easiest and cheapest route to get a review or recommendation on the Google home page or their SEO advice page

I would ask Erik Selberg to explain neural networks to me an a 20-second elevator speech.

I'd ask the Google people why they have sold so many shares recently. Do they think Google's share price has now peaked?

:)

I'd ask the Google people why they have sold so many shares recently. Do they think Google's share price has now peaked?

:)
the same question could have been asked 6 months ago when the stock was at $250.