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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2007 - 11:01 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 339 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft, which runs Live Search and is the parent company of aQuantive, which owns Avenue A Razorfish, is now partnering with another search marketing firm, The Search Agency, to offer SEO and Paid Search Marketing services to small businesses. I read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2007 - 3:31 am
Posted By: SimonHeseltine 304 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.rba.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Karen Blakeman lets everyone know that the link: and linkdomain: commands work again on MSN / Live, all you have to do is prefix the command with a + sign to get it to work. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: Gab 177 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Months ago, MSN changed bots to detect cloaking. Result?
"Every single domain I had is still in Yahoo or MSN. That is not a good sign for them. Some of these are way older than a cloaked domain should be." - XMCP read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2007 - 11:52 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 305 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
From Barry: "It is currently in a private beta, so I am not even sure if I can blog this, but I read all the privacy pages, and most are returning not found errors, so I am going to post these screen captures for you." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 30, 2007 - 9:03 am
Posted By: toddmintz 283 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Certainly news to me. Implications are pretty big because though MSN will likely find, spider & index the new site, the new site won't get any credit for the work done on the old site.

Scott Hendison asks why this is...I confess that I can't thi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 9:18 am
Posted By: Sebastian 208 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft Live Search upgrades their crawler today. From now on msnbot/1.1 supports conditional GET requests and HTTP compression. That's a very much appreciated move. I've chatted with Nathan Buggia from Live Search who was kind enough to provide m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2007 - 12:06 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 410 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
After waiting and not knowing if Microsoft supports Sitemaps, they finally have said they accept them via your robots.txt file. You cannot ping nor upload your sitemap via a console yet. But that is "coming soon." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 12:34 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 277 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
They promised us a reverse DNS their IPs to search.live.com but they are not. So now we may be blocking their spiders from crawling us. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rustybrick 262 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft explains why they indexed billions of Google Ads and what they did to fix it. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seobook 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
I recently helped a friend move a large site. Google and Yahoo! quickly responded to the site move, but Microsoft's Live Search went dead on the mov read more »
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Avatar Posted By: rustybrick 311 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
I have a feeling, Microsof'ts Live Search Webmaster Portal is about to be launched, at least a deeper beta. This should be interesting. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: paisley 44 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
MSN/LIVE Search comes out with BrowseRank to compete with PageRank... wouldn't they need to be psuhing some traffic for people to care? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Gab 221 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.tellinya.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
TellinYa 301ed a while back and lost all connection with MSN. Now, he reports, they've finally got 301s worked out. Seems like a long-standing issue at MSN has been resolved. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kevgibbo 214 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
"I didn’t like it when Google bought a Seo Company, but this is Odd microsoft have put 2 packages together 1 - $5,500.00 and 2 - $8,600.00" read more »
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Avatar Posted By: NickWilsdon 33 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://dixonjones.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Dixon Jones has been reading through the new 8 page, two column document by Microsoft on BrowseRank, the new idea coming out of China which may well eventually beat Google’s PageRank. Point by point summary in easy to digest terms. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: michaelmcd 243 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://videos.webpronews.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
MSN Live's Jeremiah Andrick talks search and webmaster tools with WebProNews read more »
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Avatar Posted By: KDye 208 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Some analysis of the amount of traffic coming from MSN and Live Search engines to UK websites. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: grasshopper 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Vanessa Fox details the new functionality Microsoft Live Search has added to their Webmaster Center. New features include indexing stats, penalty information, and downloadable link data. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 296 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Arnold Zafra over at Search Engine Journal informs us that Live Search has released their webmaster tools to the public in beta. Now that it's available, is it meeting everyone's expectations? Does it hold a torch next to Google's Webmaster Tools read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MikeO 381 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft is going to open up their webmaster tools again! (finally) Or at least they're thinking about it now, opening a trial, and getting some reactions. Who knows for sure, besides Danny. All the same, Woohoo! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: nbuggia 381 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.msdn.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Yesterday at SES San Jose, Live Search announced they will be opening up a private beta for a forthcoming set of webmaster tools this Fall. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: Noobliminal 351 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Microsoft SEO
I get about 100 hits almost every hour only on one word searches from MSN. I know it's a (Quality-Control) bot (as they say) but how have you dealt with this peace of sheet that is messing up our access logs?
PS: Maybe an MSN ethically-challenged c read more »
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Avatar Posted By: KDye 193 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
SEOs use 301 redirects often to move pages around, but what happens when a search engine (in this case Live/MSN) does not handle them correctly? Discusses implications and handling errors. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: KDye 236 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.vertical-leap.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Description of the results of some of the recent algorithm changes on the LSN/Live Search results, including some ranking factors that can be seen to affects the SERPs and what appears in the results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: scottclark 96 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Bill Slawski discusses A patent granted to Microsoft today explores the concept of extracting object blocks from pages, so that information that appears on pages about specific objects can be grouped together.

A new way of thinking about SEO for read more »
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