Ink Update or ? Increase In MSN Traffic?

my referral logs point to an increase in traffic from msn

[Chef_Brian]

Hey Guys & Girls,

I have been watching the Ink "Update Thread" which started around the first of the month or so. During the start of August my MSN accounted for about 3 - 4% of my site traffic.

On the 15th it was 3%
On the 16th it was 11%
Today it is 12%

Is the ink update hitting msn now?

I have also been trying to "work my way in MSN" through Zeal but still my site only has one listing with Zeal?

Strange.

Any ideas?

Chef Brian

[korkus2000]

I noticed ink updated some new titles I changed after the first update. They definitely updated my non-PFI pages yesterday. My traffic has also increased for the past 2 days.

They also are showing new pages. Ink seems to be ranking a lot like google.

[Chef_Brian]

So Krokus,

My "master plan" has been to NOT pay for spidering and wait, wait ...wait (and hope). That I would make it in the data base, seams like many of my pages are now included in ink and msn. Now thta I am in the data base seams like things should only getter better, as my site grows and I pick up more incoming links.

One thing, when I started with my new site about 13 months ago I was running on 100% google. At the time it seamed that meta tags were not that important. I am now thinking of adding those to most of my pages to up key word density for ink (I have heard that they like pages that are a bit more rich in density than google). Most of my pages rank on google from higher pagerank than others, my topics are competative and I feel that increasing the density will not hurt my google ranks that much .... I have the pr.

Am I on the right track?

Chef Brian

[Chef_Brian]

One more thing:

Many seam to think that SEO is dead, even sounds like a recent thread. But that is far from the truth, it has just changed much in the last two years. I have never paid a dime for any traffic with my first site (chef related) and now generate over 65,000 uniques daily. My current traffic goal is to reach 100,000 monthly and I know I can get there. It takes time, persistance and understanding what the search engines, or directories want.

I have got: tons of google referrals, a free listing on yahoo about 5 months ago, into ink for free (about 50 or so urls as of now) and other engines are picking me up as well.

Who says seo is dead?

Chef Brian

[zero6]

I agree with you chef. It has looked a little gloomy in recent times mostly due to the rising monopoly of Google and a good deal of ppc / pfi programmes. However things look like their moving around abit right now, and the Ink update has been a step in the right direction with several sites I run having been deep crawled and practically every page listed in this new db and not paid a bean. I've seen a traffic rise overall of perhaps +15%.. Excellent...

z6

[korkus2000]

Ink seems to be placing almost no importance, that I can see, on the meta keywords tag. I don't use it and one of my sites is #1 in many competitive phrases that I can't get in the top three on google. The other sites below me use it.

now generate over 65,000 uniques daily. My current traffic goal is to reach 100,000 monthly

Sounds like you reach your goal in two days ;)

[NFFC]

>On the 15th it was 3%
>On the 16th it was 11%

Could that be that sites above you from Looksmart have used their <cough>free clicks</cough> for the month and have been dropped?

[Chef_Brian]

opppsss ;-)

sure wish i had 65, 000 daily. My 9 to 5 would be history!

Cheers,

Chef Brian

[Chef_Brian]

I am not sure why my site has had more traffic as of late from msn but I am happy. They are now sending me about 200 visitors daily, I think it is from the ink datebase.

Cheers,

Chef Brian

[agerhart]

Chef Brian, I am experiencing the same thing with one site that we manage.

This relatively new site ad Google as its top referrer, with AOL coming in second, and MSN in third. Lately, MSN has moved to the #2 referrer for this site, and we are seeing an increase in traffic for a number of sites.

>>>>My "master plan" has been to NOT pay for spidering

For my own sites, I do not pay for any spidering and the sites are all in INK and do well in MSN. There is no way to tell if the site will be picked up though....it is a shot in the dark. It really depends on the amount of time you have to wait, and if you can risk the chance that you might not be included for free.

[wingslevel]

My msn/ink traffic is up significantly too...

It now comprises 15% of my traffic. The ink spider has been very aggressive on my sites for the last 60 days or so...