Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'msndude'

Microsoft Now Using Autodiscovery Sitemaps for Crawl Assistance

The official Microsoft Live Search representative at WebmasterWorld said that Microsoft will finally be supporting Sitemaps (for real this time) now. Microsoft will currently support autodiscovery of your sitemap file if it is included within your robots.txt file. I have...

MSNDude Speaks Again

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...

MSNdude Is Alive & Well!

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...

Did MSNdude Get Fired?

We all know MSN Search is now Windows Live Search, but does that mean lose our MSN representative in the forums? MSNdude, who patrols the Microsoft Search forum at WebmasterWorld has not posted a reply or thread since October 17th....

MSN's Live.com Has Issues With Site Commands with 301s

In response to Marcia (SEW mod, old time WMWer) for getting booted from MSN Search or Live.com Search in a WebmasterWorld thread, MSNdude sheds some details of Live.com's handling issues of 301s. The one place we know we need to...

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;...


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