Banned, re-instated, banned again.

MSN is a diffident SE, these days :)

[tigertom]

I got banned. Did various tricks to get re-instated. They didn't work. Saw a post somewhere about contacting MSNDude direct here. Did so. He kindly sorted it out. That worked, sort of.

MSNbot came back, started spidering a lot more pages. Got about 28 pages re-indexed last time I checked. Now they're dropping out again.

Inference: unless you make changes to your site, a hand-reinclusion won't help. You'll only trip the filter again.

MSNDude not now contactable because his WebmasterWorld inbox here is full; I wonder why? [grin].

My conclusion: work out what MSN likes in a site these days, and develop a separate one just for it. What ranks in Google won't do well in MSN/Yahoo, and vice-versa. That's an opinion, and, no, I don't have data to back it up.

Toodle pip!

[gehrlekrona]

es, they have some filter that gets tripped if you have got rid of everything they say is spam. Now, it is very hard to find out whatever that is.
Even if they say, and like in your case, they will include the site, it gets included but removed again by spam their new spam filter.
This new spam filter is so powerfult and it seems like they refuse to change it, so now it removes everything, good and bad sites.
As far as I can see it is all about linking, inbound links, out bound links and internal linkage.

[Fish_Texas]

One of many things that MSN likes is low KW density..
3% overall page KW density, and Description KW's repeat no more than twice.

This worked for me back in Sept 06...HOWEVER, this is only ONE issue with new Algo...
Your site could have other problems.
Fish Texas

[tigertom]

I have a fairly high keyword density, with H1 tags on most pages. This works well on Google, but Yahoo and MSN don't like it.

And why should they? There's no point in each SE producing the same results.

Separate sites for each major SE are the answer, I think. Just have to be careful with my 'robots.txt'! A .htaccess ban would probably be smart also.