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I had a site that showed up very well in MSN SERPS an had just about all its public pages indexed and regularly updated on MSN, twas like clock work,,,,
However, it was a .com site for a uk audience, I didn't know better before I joined www, so even tho I also had the .co.uk , the site was put online using .com,
well I decided to right my error , put the site on .co.uk an I put a
301 permanent redirect on the .com sites' default.aspx thats the .com home page.
Well, 2 weeks latter, both the .co.uk site still has only the default page indexed on MSN, an it doesn't show up on any of the SERPS for keywords for which the site used to show
So, does anyone have any suggetions please,
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Jim
msn bot struggles to index sites as it is without 301s to deal with.
on sites we work on where we have used 301s msn tends to keep the wrong urls listed in its serps for some time before updating them. Im not convinced that inbound link value is passed over correctly to the new pages either - msn is still a beta search engine, you need to give them time.
As the previous poster mentioned - what are are your inbound links like?. If they are all pointing to the .com its possible msn is treating the .co.uk site like its another site.
Best advise would have been to leave the .com as it was - nothing wrong with using a .com for a UK site - now you have made the change you need to give it time to filter in but you will no doubt have to keep the 301 as a permanent fixture
What may be a little confusing is that our algorithm to choose which of the two urls to display with the results doesn't always make the best choice. In general it picks whichever one is shorter, but that's not always ideal. Regardless, the choice of display URL has no impact on the ranking of the results -- it's just cosmetic.
Hope that helps.
