Okay, I'm dumb. Sorry if this is covered deeper in the threads, but I can't find it. How do I submit to MSN? Do I pay the 49 buck to the bcentral directory or should I do something else? Any help would be appreciated.

You don't have to submit. MSN will find you!

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Weeeeeeeee! I was very close to paying right now. You saved me $49. Thanks.

Fogetaboutit

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Although you also get a directory listing with B Central. They offer some useful SEO tools as well and allow you to submit a number of pages. Personally I try to get in as many quality directories as possible even if there is a cost.

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Hi there

Resale Broker is right ...msn will find you...paying is just a way to get listed quicker.

Google, MSN, and Yahoo may have split ways but in one way or another they have to keep competitive with each other and so are going to be crawling each other and also other SERPS that use the same information sources such as dmoz.

How much search traffic do you get from MSN according to your stats ???

B-central is probably a better bet for your money dollar for dollar.

And as was mentioned previously, any listings in search engines and directories you can get are free one way links back to your site.

Clint

you have to remember that not a lot of people use MSN so you should see less people from MSN.

MSN spiders are always very busy

What I have always told my client is no matter if there is much traffic from a search engine or not if you get one sale from one its a profit unless of course you paid for inclusion.. Also getting listed in search engines are one way links back to your site from a good neighborhood.

Another thing to remeber is search engines are targeted as well...where google will bring traffic for most e-commerce websites yahoo brings more buyers, if you're selling pokemon cards you'll do better on the front pages of dogpile than google as most kids do not use google, aol has a core community of faithful and so should always be considered.

There is more to seo than getting a site listed on googles front pages.

Clint

of course there is more to seo then getting a site listed on the front pages of Google, however, Google is the big one. Yahoo and MSN have been fairly easy to optimize in the past. We will have to see what the new MSN engine brings, however our results in the test engine look very promising. Since this is a real estate forum about optimizing real estate websites, dogpile is not one that we would look at as much. Also, with our real estate clients, we have not noticed more buyers coming from yahoo then Google. Maybe some of our real estate agents on here could help us more with answering that though. Oh and as for optimizing for AOL, AOL's search engine is powered by Google.