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Didn't MSN suggest they were using data or something else from Yahoo and DMOZ to go after spam? Wasn't there some partnership on the matter.
In addition I fail to understand the logic which for A BRAND NEW site would make the homepage disapearing FROM SCRATCH when the subdomains stick on top of results for a search for the domain name itself.
I really fail to understand the logic there and I am very disapointed to what they seem to try, doesn't make sense to me.
I also saw very fine 'niche authority' website which are not in DMOZ (who says we have to submit and add up to their 2 million backlog and get a chance not to be included sometimes for dubious reasons) outranked by 'not so authority' site which THEM are in DMOZ but that doesn't make them more relevant overall....disapointing so far!
When do HOMEPAGES COME BACK?
Seriously...my company has 2 new sites and both are screwed up while crawled everyday, I don't understand. No homepage?:((( What the hell? We don't spam anything! Wrong filter guys...wrong filter...
We have been really cautious about all SEO activities on our site, but this changes has effected us because MSN was a good source of users for our site.
MSN dude help over here. I want to do things right, so any kind of suggestion will be really apprecaites.
So far most URL's are still gone...sometimes even a subdomain (which has a ridiculous 2 or 3 pages with no more than 50 words) ranks better than the main domain.
URL's indexed seemed to be way old but msnbot still comes visiting the sites...#*$!?
Could it be a robots.txt issue? I dunno I am trying to figure out something but it seems like MSN has quite a few VERY annoying bugs unfortunately.
Solid page one rankings relevant to my site and *Poof* ... page 7. No changes since last known ranking (yesterday). Its very strange, and it would be nice if MSNDude would comment.
Hopefully, I will have the same fate as a few others and return to normal *SOON* :)
and it would be nice if MSNDude would comment.
To be fair, the phenomena still sounds much like he said it would in post 17 on this thread. "A couple of weeks" in Microsoft terms probably means at least a month or two! :)
Am waiting and hoping that it comes back on the listing...
As far as we can figure out it is a spam filter that is catching our network due to interlinking of the network. We shot off a email to them but honestly I could care less since we have over a million backlinks to our sites and several million users a month, if MSN cannot see that we are a authority and do not want us in there search engine because as most legit networks do interlink to show users there other properties it is there loss not ours.
Just goes to show just how messed up MSN really is.
So there support responds back to the wrong ticket in broken english and sends us to the wrong dept and bounces emails. Seems about on par with the search engine they own hahaha.
that is how MSN has been acting for more than a year so get used to it.
Not true entirely. Number one for a popular hosting term, have been for over 5 months.
These links are using 301's, the link itself is listed, not the true landing page, no description, title is my sites address and the cache is up to date (cached today for example). When I click the cached page, I get the message: "Could not find the requested document in the cache."
(For me this only works without using the www's, that could just be because my preferred url is without and www is 301'd to the non www.)
Also, link: without the slash and with the slash are showing different results as is with the www's and without.
Anyone else seeing anything odd like this? Is this normal behavior for MSN?
