Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'windows live'

On November 15, 2006 Google, Microsoft & Yahoo! Back SiteMaps Protocol and Microsoft posted about it back then that they are supporting it. We are 100% behind this protocol - this kind of collaboration will help improve the search experience...

Posted on March 20, 2007 7:36 AM

Microsoft is just not doing all that well, and honestly, I am surprised by how poorly they are doing. I learned this morning that Chris Payne, corporate vice president of Windows Live search, is leaving Microsoft to start up his...

Posted on March 8, 2007 7:55 AM

This is funny, remember the huge adCenter overcharge bug a couple weeks ago? Yea, they did refund adCenter advertisers very soon after. I am now spotting reports at the WebmasterWorld thread that they refunded advertisers too much! Well, we were...

Posted on March 6, 2007 7:53 AM

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...

Posted on March 1, 2007 8:20 AM

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...

Posted on February 12, 2007 8:28 AM

The Live Search Blog announced that they have renamed and taken out of beta, their search API the other day. The new name is Windows Live Search API, lovely. They also gave it a bit of an upgrade, adding: More...

Posted on February 7, 2007 7:45 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread links to a story named Microsoft adCenter can't bill correctly. It goes through how the individual used a $100 promo, ran up a bill of $111 or so and was billed the whole $111 instead of...

Posted on December 27, 2006 8:12 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread reports that Microsoft adCenter is inflating the conversion metrics by 30 to 40 percent. Member, PPC, says: For those that track conversions at MSN, does anyone else see inflated numbers? MSN consistently reports 40-50%...

Posted on December 22, 2006 7:21 AM

A WebmasterWorld reports that Microsoft's adCenter PPC product has a very delayed reporting engine, for about two days now. The official adCenter representative, adCenterEU, explains; I've recieved an alert over night (GMT) that reporting is behind SLA by around a...

Posted on December 21, 2006 7:50 AM

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...

Posted on December 13, 2006 11:17 AM

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...

Posted on December 8, 2006 7:30 AM

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...

Posted on December 6, 2006 5:00 PM

The tenth edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. This is the first week in a while where we only had one weeks worth of topics. Makes it much easier to manage, and more relaxing. The topics we...

Posted on November 29, 2006 1:41 AM

Extremely impressive release by Microsoft with Virtual Earth. It is basically a Google Earth product with "dramatic 3-D mapping" in your browser, as Greg Sterling reports. I personally tried installing it on Mac running Windows in Parallels but it did...

Posted on November 7, 2006 8:14 AM

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...

Posted on October 30, 2006 7:04 AM

On September 15th we reported that Live.com Is Not Passing Referer Information, then on September 18th we reported that MSN Says Live.com Referral Bug "Not By Design". Today I am happy to report that Microsoft has fixed the referral error,...

Posted on September 21, 2006 7:56 AM

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...

Posted on September 13, 2006 6:59 AM

Chris Sherman is moderating this session, the room isn't crazy full but its substantial for the first ever one of these. Chris says Social Search is Internet wayfinding tools informed by human judgement. Informed can mean many things - including...

Posted on August 7, 2006 12:55 PM