MSN Update, November 3

[sugarrae]

Serps are massively different today then they were last night across a ton of sectors. Looks like they did a big one. Anyone seeing any trends? I'm seeing massive ranks for authority sites where I'm looking - sites like CNN ranking for big terms that make you scratch your head, lots of wikipedia and google groups esque items ranking for huge, huge terms.

I would have posted this in the Oct. 23 update thread - but this isn't the minor shuffle that occured a week or so ago - I'm seeing a whole new set of serps.

[BillyS]

>>On the term I've been using as a benchmark, blogspot was 8 for 10. Now down to 5 of 10. MSN might be moving this junk out...

Just noticed MSN is now down to 1 of 10. Now if they'd only put the legitmate websites back in (like mine...).

Earlier today I noticed a referal based on a question I knew I answered on my site. I was ranked #6 out of exactly 6 results :(

[Robert Charlton]

Blogspot results now appear to be gone in the areas I was watching.

[surftrack]

well, that could possibly account in the increases across the board for me in msn this morning :)

did they finally cave and discount anything with *.blogspot.com?

[steveb]

The results continue to get better, but there is a disturbing tendency to not rank the correct page. Like for a "topic" search instead of ranking
example.com/topic/
they rank
example.com/topic/subtopic/
even though example.com/topic/ is far more relevant and has SEO signs that it should be ranked (like 1000 links to it compared to 20; links pointing with words mentioning the text "topic" instead of "subtopic").

I see pages ranking #25 or so that are the third or fourth best choice for the domain, whereas the correct page should be in the top 10.

[surftrack]

yeah i have that happen to...

i actually think its a matter of the correct tweak to their onpage. msn tends to like less keyword in the density...which would account for the subdomain ranking for it.