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Avatar Posted By: wesmcdermott 4 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.stonetemple.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Angus Norton is the Senior Director, Live Search, at Microsoft Corporation. Angus previously has had several other roles at Microsoft, including: Senior Director, Developer Platform Evangelism, Director, Windows Mobile, and Group Product Manager, En read more »
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Avatar Posted By: raghavanrp 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.thatsseo.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Details on Domain Score, Page Score and search rankings in Live Search Engine. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: yetanotherben 16 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.huomah.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Another great summary of search patents by David Harry, aka theGypsy. Learn more about using link structure for suggesting related queries, term suggestion for multi-sense query, vision-based document segmentation, web spam page classification usin read more »
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Avatar Posted By: lintocsr 23 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobyelan.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
This explains the things that search engine crawler should have! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: jnelson563 31 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://jdnweb.net)
Category: Microsoft SEO
MSN using incentives to entice searchers? Will enough people utilize it to make a lock-in affect and retain some users? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: ikamay 32 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://internetincomestrategy.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Review of Ultimate Search Engine Ranking Loophole for search engine placement in the high top page of MSN Search read more »
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Avatar Posted By: erikvold 40 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.allthingssem.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Measures in combination beat the all mighty PageRank?

* Popularity as measured by the number of times it was visited by users over time. The MSN Toolbar provided this data. Yes, the MSN Toolbar, as with other toolbars, could very well be a fa read more »
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Avatar Posted By: suncao 45 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.suncao.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
A silly MS mistake I noticed after reading DaveN's blog read more »
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Avatar Posted By: tamarisk83 55 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.iis.net)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Today IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: lintocsr 61 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobyelan.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Google’s Page rank is a calculation by considering many factors whereas browse rank has been calculated with two following points. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MattMcGee 91 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
More Bill Slawsi goodness. :-) This one explores a new MSFT patent app. that asks if the rankings of web pages in search results would be improved by a providing a slight increase in the PageRank of pages linked to by blogs. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: peteyoung 98 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://holisticsearch.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
MSN seems to have taken a very bold/strange move by presenting users with only one page of results. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JameSEO 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://jameseo.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
MSN SEO: Microsoft Live SEO best Practices summary read more »
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Avatar Posted By: theGypsy 105 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Well my search geeks and freaks... this is definately a concept worth reading up on. The method centers around parsing/indexing various parts of pages and identifying blocks of content. While not a new approach from MS, this is the first patent to t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: MelC 154 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adcentercommunity.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
More Great Tools From Nathan and Co...... read more »
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Avatar Posted By: grasshopper 155 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: NickWilsdon 156 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: gyutae 165 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobook.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
cNet recently covered a new Microsoft Search research paper on BrowseRank [PDF]. The theory behind the concept of BrowseRank is that rather than using links (PageRank) as the backbone of a relevancy algorithm, you could look at actual usage data fro read more »
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Avatar Posted By: paisley 167 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: gpeipman 207 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://weblogs.asp.net)
Category: Microsoft SEO
SEO is popular topic nowadays and as ASP.NET is growing its popularity also as platform for public systems. Therefore SEO is going to be more important topic also for ASP.NET developers. The world of SEO is always in rapid change - can you imagine t read more »
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Avatar Posted By: scottclark 219 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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Avatar Posted By: JasonU 223 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.jason-urquhart.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
What a fantastic headline - "Microsoft exec plots Google disruptions". This was a headline on the latest iMedia Connection newsletter. My over active imagination had visions of Microsoft involved in some French resistance style campaign of sabotage read more »
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Avatar Posted By: peterryan 238 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.arteworks.biz)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Jeremiah Andrick of Live Search talks about the important factors when trying to do search engine optimization for this relatively young search engine by Microsoft. read more »
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Posted By: Gab 300 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 Posted By: KDye 316 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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