MSN Huge Drop

[hortex]

I build a site for a fellow broker - landed at #4 on MSN. A month later dropped to #30...#40. I heard that new sites can get indexed at the top but quickly drop.

I just launched mine and got to #6 on MSN and would like to avoid the same circumstance.

Any advice?

John Horton
http://wilmington-northcarolinarealestate.com

[Sam Dodd]

Blog

[hortex]

Ok, I will take your lead as I see you are #1 on Google for your area.

When you say "blog", and I not a newbie, run a blogspot, re-post on your own site, AND contribute to others?

Just curious as my meta and domain name are in line.

Thanks,

John Horton
http://wilmington-northcarolinarealestate.com/

[erogers]

I think what you want to do is install something like a wordpress blog that sits underneath your domain. Make it produce static HTML for your posts and include them in your sitemap. That way, when you blog, it looks like you're adding pages to your site - I.E. new content. Of course it can't hurt to blog from another site and link your pages to aid in indexing and build externals.

[slrb]

Im not sure there is any rhyme or reason for what MSN does!

[bluemc]

It seems that MSN puts more weight on onpage optimization like page title, description, etc. and links. Building links quickly at early stage may help.

[Spanishproperty]

MSN is playing up at the moment, I have three sites that have been built in the past three months.

Only one of them has been picked up by MSN, I think it was the first one that we submitted.

I know MSN is usually the easiest to get good and quick results in, but I shouldn't worry with it, they will soon pull their finger out of their rear and sort it out. Fingers crossed.

[Memphis]

MSN likes clean coded websites.
MSN likes new relevant content
MSN likes fresh content added as often as possible
MSN seems to de-value stale or old content
MSN loves proper keywords, meta tag (it appears anyway)

MSN is useless. I rank #1 for almost everything, and can contribute close to nothing in regards to real clients, prospects, etc. I'll take one keyword in Google at #10 over ten key words in MSN at #1 - any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

JMHO

[Micheal Pannell Realtor]

Well i love msn, i rank number one for alot of term and am getting about 1500 visit from them each month to my fort worth site.

[Dallas Broker]

MSN is ok. Only contributes for around 10-15% of total visitors/month. But every visitor counts in the world of real estate.