Index page dropped (trailing slash quirk?)

[simey]

Wondered if anyone else had experienced this.
Several weeks ago my site completely tanked on MSN after months of good rankings. A site:www.my-site.com search now only shows interior pages, no homepage. www.my-site.com likewise.

But...if I include the trailing slash when searching (www.my-site.com/), the index page shows fine.

Google rankings tanked for me around the same time too. / search quirk does'nt seem to apply there though.

I'm using absolute (not relative)linking , non-www to www redirect, and blog cms by-the-way.

[followgreg]

I have reported the same bug on [webmasterworld.com...]

It is really terrible, I don't get it. But since it happened during an update I am not sure what to think anymore.
Yahoo used to have similar stupid issues in the past...back a few years ago I think.

Since MSN doesn't seem to care about it, then if you find the solution..then you will be my hero!

Question: When you search for your domain name, does it bring up your homepage?

[simey]

When you search for your domain name, does it bring up your homepage?

It brings up every page BUT my homepage. Then when I use the trailing slash. it only brings up the homepage.

I think I may have instigated this problem when I tried to update my WP version. Even though I'm using an exact copy of the old .htaccess etc.

[flanok]

Funny enough I asked a simlar question here.
It was all to do with trying to sort duplicate content issues and was wondering if I had messed up MSN in the process.

[webmasterworld.com...]

Mark