For some reason I've really dropped rank in MSN and I'm not sure why because I've been building more links than ever. What could be penalizing me?

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I see large MSN drops frequently with a lot of sites and it's typically because of aging content. MSN puts a huge premium on fresh pages, so much that many sites will jump to the top of the rankings the within a week after they launch only to see them continuously slide after that. As far as I can tell MSN doesn't have the same kinda of penalty assessing algorithms that google uses.

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Matt, IMO, it's not related to fresh content at all. I see drops in MSN frequently only to have them come back to the original positions or better so in these cases it can't be fresh content.

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I have pages that never change that stay #1 so "fresh" content isn't an issue IMO.

I agree. My top spots never change. I don't disappear and reappear, fresh content or not.

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I changed my site back to the old way it used to be and my rankings dropped even more. Is there something wrong with my content?

Morgan can you reapply the algorithm from the full seo I paid for to one of my subpages so I can duplicate it to the others? I have more links than ever and I'm getting my ass kicked even in msn. Something is fishy.

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Did Gerry send you the original content from before you changed it, and did you re-apply verbatim?

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Gerry send me the files but the content looks like the content I originally wrote before I paid for the full seo.

Here's a paste of the code. Is this your full seo algorithm?

http://hashphp.org/pastebin?pid=7280

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Some of that looks like Gerry's content, some of it looks like your old content, not sure which is which. That is definitly not from the REW site, it is from way back when you were on your old site. I was suggesting you revert back to the content that was ranking say 2 months ago, that would have been all REW content.

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Here we get back to "Latent Semantic Indexing." More and more, search engines will be "busting" what they perceive as search engine spamming. Your site is obviously about real estate. There isn't any need to put "real estate" in EVERY navigation item or focus so much on keyword density. Not everyone agrees with me, but I have my reasons for being "contrary."

Besides, MSN is just fickle.

....AND "Orange County real estate" is a highly competitve term. You're competing with some genuine authority sites.

Most agents in Laguna focus on the southern beach cities and don't sell a lot inland or north, so it might make sense to focus on your target market a lot more instead of spreading yourself so thin. I mean, someone buying in Brea, Fullerton, or Yorba Linda - isn't really your target market.

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