Many of you probably already know that Microsoft's Live Search has been displaying "Sitelinks" under the first search result for some queries for a while now. In fact, they have been doing this since the Microsoft Searchification Day 2007 in...
Many of you probably already know that Microsoft's Live Search has been displaying "Sitelinks" under the first search result for some queries for a while now. In fact, they have been doing this since the Microsoft Searchification Day 2007 in...
Ever since the last quarter of 2007, SEOs and Webmasters have been complaining about not being indexed in Live Search. In short, many sites that were once indexed and ranking in Live Search were no longer. Plus, many new sites...
According to Marketwatch, Nielsen is reporting that Google has only captured 56.3% of the US search market in December compared to 57.7% the previous month. The gain seems to be in Microsoft, which captured 13.8% of the search share compared...
Yesterday, we reported findings that MSN was returning Google AdWords links in their natural search results. Well, Microsoft has responded to this issue on the Live Search Webmaster Central Blog, explaining that it was a complete accident and that it...
Interested on getting some cash? Well, you may be able to with the new MSN adCenter Affiliate Program. For every advertiser you refer to adCenter, you'll get a percentage of their signups. Cool. It may help others too, as some...
Wow, talk about strange issues with MSN Live. I just performed a search on Live.com and the 3rd and 4th results were Google AdWords ads as pictured below: Actually, I'm not the one to have discovered this. Michael Dorausch spotted...
In early November I reported that Microsoft's link command came back to life. But it now seems to be up and down, currently down. The new link command that should work, is the the syntax of +linkdomain:www.seroundtable.com. But as expected,...
Scott Hendison (who I met at a variety of search conferences and will see at Pubcon -- hi!) blogged about MSN ignoring 301 redirects: a site he had that ranked #1 in MSN was completely gone. After investigation, he found...
How would you go about submitting a reinclusion request for a site that may have been banned from MSN unfairly? MSNdude says that you can visit http://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlsearch&ct=eformts and ask for reinclusion. Forum members at WebmasterWorld are frankly disappointed in MSN's...
Hitwise, a competitive intelligence service, has released its October 2007 numbers, indicating that Google dominated the search landscape that month with over 64% of searches performed. Yahoo, MSN, and Ask followed, with numbers at 21.65%, 7.42%, and 4.76%, respectively. Is...
In September, we reported that Microsoft's Live Search spam-like referrals are official tests performed by Microsoft and that blocking them could have you delisted from the search results. A bunch of forum members are still reporting this "abnormal" activity and...
There are unconfirmed reports from DigitalPoint Forums that Microsoft is going to upgrade adCenter soon to support daily budgeting. Currently, I believe, adCenter only has a way to set a budget at the month level. You can supposedly set a...
An advertiser using MSN adCenter has a product listed for $69.99. However, he can't actually feature the price in the ad because the number "69" is not allowed. I tried to update an ad this morning with the price of...
Seems like Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and Microsoft Live Search all are not sporting anything exciting or new for Labor Day. They have not done anything special in the past either, so it is not too surprising. Dogpile is sporting the...
Last week, Microsoft launched Tafiti, a search engine that is powered by its new Silverlight technology. I played around with the features and have showed some screenshots of the new search engine in action. Once Silverlight is installed, you see...
Many are excited that Microsoft has announced that they will be building out a webmaster portal. The portal will be similar to that of Yahoo's Site Explorer of Google's Webmaster Central. As Danny Sullivan explains, the portal will help consolidate...
A DigitalPoint Forums thread has a member saying he has been beta testing the Microsoft alternative to Google's AdSense program, named ContentAds. He gave the new contextual ad program, from a publisher's perspective, a great review. To be honest is...
There appears to be some early reports of a Live.com or MSN Search update taking place now. A WebmasterWorld thread has a few signs and signals from the SEO community that such an update is currently underway. It is currently...
I typically like to wait for Danny Sullivan to do his large chart, plotting all the various metrics companies against each other. But Nielsen//NetRatings released (PDF) a report with new share figures. Here they are: In the number one slot,...
Moderator: Jeffrey K. Rohrs, VP Agency & Search Marketing, ExactTarget Panelists: John C. Kim, Senior Director, Advertiser Product Marketing, Yahoo! Search Marketing James Colburn, Product Manager, Search Strategy & adCenter Go To Market, Microsoft Tom Leung, Product Manager, Google, Inc....
Seattle 2007" />Satya Nadella is a 15 year Microsoft veteran, and has recently become the VP of Micorsoft’s Search & Advertising Platform Group. There is a new secret search stealth project going on in San Jose? At the end...
A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports a few webmasters received phone calls from Microsoft adCenter representatives. Both webmasters seemed to have set up accounts in the past, but never fully activated those accounts. One said, I signed up several months back...
Google rises in market share, MSN falls badly and Yahoo just hovers in place. There was a thread this morning on WMW about the April 2007 stats numbers just released by Nielsen/NetRatings. According to them: Microsoft saw its share of...
A DigitalPoint Forums thread asks about the Microsoft Live link: operator which is still offline. We first reported about the link: operator downtime on March 26, which was nearly two months ago. A DigitalPoint user references the MSDN blog post...
I reported this at SES NY but I have now found a thread confirming this at WebmasterWorld. adCenterEU confirmed there will be some type of accreditation program for adCenter managers. Thanks for your interest in the adCenter accreditation scheme. We...
If you are a Microsoft adCenter advertiser, I recommend you login to your account and check to make sure that the conversion tracking part is set to the way you like it. Two advertisers noticed over the weekend that the...
After several months in beta, a brand new MSN Live Hotmail was released to the public yesterday. A DigitalPoint Forums thread highlights the launch and links to the TechCrunch coverage of the release, which includes screenshots of the AJAX interface....
The official Microsoft adCenter representative has confirmed that they are using Intellitxt ads "to drive trial and interest in Live Search itself." Intellitxt is a contextual product that shows ads within the text you are reading for the those keywords...
A Cre8asite Forums thread tells the perfect story of someone who wants a page they own to be removed from the search engines. One of my clients is an attorney and all of his partners have their own biography page...
I reported earlier this week that adCenter advertisers noticed a drop in traffic, which we later found out was due to them adding a quality factor to the ads displayed in live.com. Microsoft claimed that "this improvement will ensure that...
Update: The adCenter blog posted that they made an update to the algorithm that ranks the ads. They now take into account relevancy and quality factors such as "content of the ad and landing page, keywords that an advertiser selects...
Numerous reports from users in the WebmasterWorld forum say that the MSN reinclusion process is taking a long time. One member says that he tried to email webspam@msn.com and it got bounced back. According to msndude, a Microsoft representative, that...
Tamar reported yesterday here that MSN Prepopulates their UK Search Box with "The Apprentice BBC". But it does not appear to just be prepopulated with "The Apprentice BBC". Last night they began showing "Euro 2008 results" in the search box,...
A WebmasterWorld thread reports a possible Microsoft Search, Live.com Search, update. Is anyone else seeing this? It seems like a BIG update, and lots of old problems fixed. Our website is finally showing #1 (after being pushed down by spam...
There are two separate reports from two different threads that Microsoft adCenter's conversion tracking is inflating their figures. First, what is adCenter conversion tracking? The adCenter Conversion Tracking help says: Converson tracking is a free feature provided by Microsoft adCenter...
The huge adCenter overcharging bug this past Friday was patched towards the end of the day Friday. Microsoft promised to refund all the overcharging that occurred throughout the day in their blog post. After reviewing the threads at DigitalPoint Forums...
digg_url = 'http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012501.html'; Fixed: The adCenter representative has notified us via the two forums and the adCenter blog that the overcharging has been fixed and that they are now working up a plan to reimburse advertisers. Update: This is...
If you are an advertisers on Microsoft's Live.com adCenter, and you noticed your reports not being updated, you are not alone. A WebmasterWorld thread has details of adCenter reports not updating since 7:00 am EST on February 11th. adCenter411, the...
A WebmasterWorld thread has a theory that smaller pages tend to rank better in Microsoft's Live Search (MSN Search), than larger pages. Senior member, crobb305 explains: Has anyone else noticed that very small pages rank highest in MSN? This could...
Ben reported that MSNDude Still Missing, I think he heard us and came out of his hub to inform us he is still around... In a post at WebmasterWorld (post number 3216990) he wrote; Rest assured, MSNDude is, and will...
There is a WebmasterWorld thread where folks are reporting that MSN Search is indexing a bit too much. Reports suggest that MSN is crawling and indexing the content found on pages which are excluded via the robots.txt directive. Normally, if...
There are two recent threads that I found at forums I typically do not cover much on the topic of pay per post reviews. The posts are at HighRankings Forums and at SEO Refugee Forums. I am going to pull...
An Adam Lasnik post in Google Groups sprung a post at Cre8asite Forums explaining that if you have bad HTML, Google will be OK with it. Yes, that is the case, your code does not need to be 100% validated...
The eleventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. We were able to discuss in detail about half of the topics I wanted. We discussed SES Chicago, Andy's click fraud rate, AdWords quality score tests, holiday updates by...
Reportedly, via a WebmasterWorld posts, there has been a significant drop in ad impressions noticed from sources in the Mid Atlantic to the Northeast areas of the US. There are literally a couple threads on this at WebmasterWorld, including here...
The eleventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. We were airing this live at SES Chicago, during the cocktail hour last night. We had hundreds of special guests all around us, some that got on the air...
Microsoft has jumped on the bandwagon for allowing you to verify if the useragent, MSNBot, that is crawling your site, is truly from Microsoft or being spoofed by some content scraper. Google has released information in the past for verifying...
I often hate reporting on threads that do not have any direct link to examples but sometimes you have to trust certain members. A thread at WebmasterWorld has senior member crobb305 claiming that for many searches he is finding "loads...
Last week, I was nervous that possibly Did MSNdude Get Fired? Darren commented saying that MSNDude is "Greg H." and that he was promoted. He said; The very active & helpful msndude was Greg H. He said msndude is a...
AussieWebmaster posted a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums with a link to a blog post named How to remove your competitors from MSN Live! In short, the "hack" is to generate enough duplicate content on your competitors site, so...
A relatively old thread at Search Engine Watch Forums discusses what the benefits of subdomains are in terms of SEO. There are many examples given, including that subdomains are often considered separate sites by Google and the other engines. That...
The seventh edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. This show was jammed packed with coverage from the past three weeks. We introduced the show with a look at how the industry including Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Ask.com and...
Microsoft has updated their adCenter Labs tools including; 4 million new keywords added to the Search Funnel 1.5: They added Keyword Forecast that shows "the impression count forecast and demographic predictions of your search terms." It is pretty cool. I...
AussieWebmaster at Search Engine Watch Forums records an email sent to him from Microsoft about a new ad campaign they have launched October 27th to "promote Microsoft Live Search." Here is the email; I wanted to make you aware of...
Big conference is taking place now, named eComXpo. In any event, a bunch of PPC engines are there giving away coupons. One accessible coupon for you is from MSN adCenter, they are giving away $50 in free clicks for new...
A WebmasterWorld thread has tips on how to rank your pages well in Microsoft's Live.com MSN Search. These SEO tips are being debated in the thread right now. They go through subjects such as: Importance of Content Importance of Freshness...