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I have pm'd MSNDude (which I figureed would get me no where), I have also emailed webspam@microsoft.com and have not heard anything for weeks.
Our site does great in Yahoo and Google, however.
Anyone have any advice? Has this happened to others? And if so, have you found a way to get re-indexed successfully? What should we do?
(And as you've read many others say) We don't practice any intentional spamming/black hat techniques. We have a very clean site with lots of quality backlinks and original content.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
But MSN Search is a mess. I was just looking at my log files and saw a referral for a three word term. MSN had exactly 119 results. I was in position 119. From what I could tell I was one of the few sites that actually addressed this person's question. That's why they went all the way to the end of the result to find my site.
I posted my dialog with MSN Help about my ranking. They say no penalty exists, just a problem with ranking. Well they've got non-English sites, myspace junk and even songs ahead of me.
I'm going to say it...
MSN Search is Officially Pathetic.
That's right pathetic and that entire organization should be ashamed that this is the best they can do two years after launch. And my prediction is Vista is only going to highlight the fact that MSN / Live is unusable in its present state.
DO SOMETHING MSN! You've got nothing to lose.
Pathetic? OH, YES!
PM'ing MSNDude doesn't help since it seems he has abandoned us or he got fired for the s***y search results.
No point flaming MSNdude, he is not responsible to the algo, for your site mistakes or open interlinking, which you have mentioned more than once in more than once thread here.
It's fine to have an opinion about lousy search results and a lousy / algo engine, but to say it is MSNdude's fault is akin to saying that your accountant is responsible because you owe alot in taxes this year.
I have had a Hotmail account for years and emailed them regarding this problem - after eight million emails back and forth they finally forwarded my request to Live Search. Then I had to endure another eight million emails back and forth with them, but they finally said they will re-index my site within 7-10 days. Today (a few days later) I checked and they have my homepage indexed only, but it's a start!
Why so many emails back and forth? Did they tell you what to change? What DID you change to get back in?
