Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'msn seo'

Microsoft Live.com MSN Search Turkey Day Update

Reports via WebmasterWorld that Microsoft released a new update for its MSN Search, Windows Live Search product over Thanksgiving weekend. Senior member, crobb305, was the first to report it, stating; In the top 20, on a financial term I watch,...

Does Registering A Domain Name for 10 Years Help Search Ranking?

The question at a WebmasterWorld forum is does registering your domain name for 10 years, instead of one year, help you rank better in Google? Reading the thread, it appears that most senior members in the thread, feel that it...

Microsoft Banning Sites from Live.com For Link Exchanges

A Search Engine Watch Forums post has the first documented, public, case, that I have seen of someone receiving an email from the Live (MSN) Search team for being banned for using link exchanges. Here is the email as reported...

A Method To Delist Your Competitor From MSN Search's Live.com?

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...

Can A Search Engine Like Google.com Index My PDF Files?

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has a member not understanding why Google has not indexed his PDF files. To make a long story short, Google did index his PDF files, but I thought it would make a nice quick...

Microsoft Search (aka Live.com) Search Engine Optimization Tips

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...

MSN Search to Switch to Live.com: What Is The Difference?

Microsoft announced that search.msn.com will be soon replaced by www.live.com, and that live.com is out of beta. Whooopeee, being sarcastic. Ok, past the press release, what does this mean for search engine marketers? Well, not incredibly much. First we have...

Microsoft Rolls Back MSN Search Update

Friday, we reported that Microsoft released an MSN Search update. It caused some obvious and surprisingly weird bugs at MSN. It turns out that MSN has rolled back that update Friday evening. MSNdude says; We rolled back the recent update,...

MSN Search Shows 1000 Results But MSN's API Still Shows 250?

Tuesday we reported that MSN Now Goes Beyond 250 Results from their previous state of only showing 250 results per search query. But I just read that thread and noticed an update, stating that although the web search front end...

MSN Search Doesn't Randomize Results Within One Index

Often SEOs notice that a search engine may test various result sets in the search results between a search update and an other search update. It appears from one of MSNdude's most recent postings that MSN does not do that....

MSN Now Goes Beyond 250 Results

Until some time recently a search at MSN only went up to 250 results displayed. For example, if you searched on "web" you would get up to 250 listed results, and nothing beyond that. Today, if you search on a...

MSN Search Demotes "Spammy-Looking" Pages

There are some discussions in WebmasterWorld and some more recent discussion in DigitalPoint Forums about an MSN update taking place still. Many Webmasters are noting changes to their rankings, most are saying they are seeing a drop in their rankings....

MSN Search to Fight Sub Domain Link Spam

A WebmasterWorld thread points out an issue at MSN Search, where subdomains that are excessively linking between each other, tend to rank well in MSN Search. Well, MSN is aware of it, according to MSNdude; It bothers us too, and...

"Spam is Often About Excess" Says MSN Search

Ever wonder if you are stepping over that gray line of spam with the search engines? Well, if you feel you are doing anything excessive, then don't, according to MSNdude at WebmasterWorld. In a post MSNdude made yesterday, he said;...

Can You Please Them All? (Google, Yahoo!, MSN & Ask.com)

Detlev Johnson is moderating this new session. Can you rank well in all the search engines? Or do you need to pick and choose. This session will be a SEO session on that topic. Aaron Wall from SEO Book is...

The Obscure Query Revisited: A Look at SEM Forum Discussion

Every now and then on an off day, I revisit the Big Blue Pineapple Chair page I have on this site. Why? Well, it gives me an idea of how well (1) this site is doing in the various search...


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