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Old 04-12-2005, 06:54 PM
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I do not know about everyone else but MSN search results are nasty! What is going on with MSN? Search for virginia mortgages and the reuslts are the same website with different domains. Seems there are other posts with similiar questions.

MSN has totally dropped my index page, have every single page but the homepage.

This is the strangest thing I have seen.

Does anyone rank 1 to 2 in MSN with multiple kw's that notice any meaningful traffic coming to their site from MSN?
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Old 04-12-2005, 07:14 PM
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MSN is doing a lot of changing! However, for us it has been Great! Yahoo on the other hand is another story!
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Old 04-12-2005, 09:46 PM
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I do not know about everyone else but MSN search results are nasty! What is going on with MSN? Search for virginia mortgages and the reuslts are the same website with different domains. Seems there are other posts with similiar questions.

MSN has totally dropped my index page, have every single page but the homepage.

This is the strangest thing I have seen.

Does anyone rank 1 to 2 in MSN with multiple kw's that notice any meaningful traffic coming to their site from MSN?
Yup - It is apparently easy to manipulate, The agents here in SD have the same problem (obviously except Alan above) but in only MSN with a site (several sites) that are all the same content and similar domain names... it is WEAK!
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Funny, I'm loving msn right now because we are finally on the first page. Yahoo and G are still treating us like a disowned stepchild!
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Old 04-12-2005, 11:21 PM
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I have a number of #1 positions and still very LITTLE traffic. I was really hoping MSN would pick up in traffic so these #1 spots would help out, but no such luck. Goggle is #1 by far.
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MSN has made some bad filter choices. They are still letting in some pretty spammy /black hat sites. Their results were great up until a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully they will fix it soon.
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Well seems that its trying to fix itself,,,,index page is back and up.
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Do not worry it will bounce back and forth, I think they do that to make us all watch it more... Mine goes from 1 to 2 to 4 to 7 to 12 to 6 to 4 to 3 to 17 to 3 to 7 and it drives me wild....I don't know where it's at right now.... lol
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Mine goes from 1 to 2 to 4 to 7 to 12 to 6 to 4 to 3 to 17 to 3 to 7 and it drives me wild....I don't know where it's at right now.... lol


My customers think I'm nuts...I send them a report with rankings from msn and when they go to look they're all different...sometimes really different...right now they are at number 2..do I dare tell them?

In this years first quarter...for 13 sites I monitor....msn accounted for 8% of the search engine traffic...yahoo was at 31% and google at 58%
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Maybe it would be better if you sent them a screenshot! At least you would have proof that you aren't a liar if they checked and the results had changed again. MSN is still too flaky to rely on. Once they decide on a good set of filters and remove the spammy/black hat sites in their index, hopefully it won't bounce around so much.
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