MSN results seem to include more of the smaller siites

It would seem on inspection MSN serps have better quality smaller sites

[stinkfoot]

Hi,

On a resent inspection of my industries serps on MSN it would seem there are a number of smaller sites eg. less than 1000 pages, that come up high ranking in MSN.

After looking at other search engines results it would seem there are many more smaller sites results on MSN than on others.

Comments?

[zeus]

I think the results is now the best ever, some internal pages also gets hits now and the ranking seems a little more relevant AND it is other results as google which I think is great.

[steveb]

MSN deliberately does not fully index sites, so 2000 page sites that normally get a boost from having more internal anchor text than a 20 page site. The results are not just awful because deep content sites are deliberately gutted of their full value but high quality pages are not ranked.

MSN seems to want an internet where every page is on its own subdomain.

[stinkfoot]

Zues .. I think I agree with you tbh. Small high quality sites with good content and (in my case) great choices of relaxing colour schemes rule. To me a monster site that you seeming cant escape from, which is what other well known search engines seem to be producing, that gets top ranking for 10000 keywords is a joke.

What the internet should be is a random selection of well designed, easy to use, high quality information based sites. Size is not everything.

Steveb ..

>>The results are not just awful because deep content sites are deliberately gutted of their full value but high quality pages are not ranked.

OK if you are looking for deep content to be top ranking ... what happens when someone produces a niche site of 20 pages with good information on the subject matter of you 1 measly page? I personally get all pages indexed both on large sites and small. (11 in all)

>MSN seems to want an internet where every page is on its own subdomain.

Hmm interesting. I will have to disagree though. That not MSN at all imo. If you were to look in the top ranking of "another search engine" starts with G, for very hi money keywords, London hotels is a good one, I think you will find cross linking of many many sub domains here. You are not thinking of MSN.

With production of smaller sites you have got a real pain if some nightmare industry monster site takes up your subject matter. I feel that if a site is set up for a specific subject it should be better ranked that one page.

Eg monster travel site sets up a page that gives detail of a bed and breakfast establishment.

Bed and breakfast establishment sets up site of 5 pages giving details of 1) who they are 2)what they are 3) how much it costs to stay 4) what rooms look like and 5) what the phone number is.

Which site in your mind deserves to be top when looking for information. Your love of monster sites says not the B&B's own page. I disagree.