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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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The new MSN Search is quickly gaining popularity among internet search engine users. Google still being the #1 search engine with Yahoo in #2, and MSN in a strong #3. read more »
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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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beta.search.msn is now ranking the Myspace redirect #1 for a fairly competitive term. read more »
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Atlast msn accepts SEO read more »
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This beta version of a new search vehicle from Microsoft requires you install Silverlight. After that, do you like the look and feel of this? I guess it shows Search is now all about marketing. read more »
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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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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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Loren Baker, editor of Search Engine Journal blogged about my post on Technorati being f'ed up. He makes an excellent point, pointing out that Google is fueling all the Technorati Blog Spamming.

Well, Lauren hit the nail on the head. And he raise read more »
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Have you been using the tools at Google's Webmaster Central site? Microsoft is now beta testing a competitive service called the Microsoft Webmaster Portal. According to their blog post, they'll offer submission, spider, and site map resources to he read more »
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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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Not a lot of helpful hints in this article, but nice to see someone addressing Live search. Live is a bit neglected in the industry. read more »
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Organic traffic from MSN.com has remained constant. Anyone else see something like this? read more »
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A couple of useful tips to improve rankings in MSN. read more »
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Maybe I'm missing the boat, but optimizing a website for Live Search seems to be an exercise in futility. Why? Read on... read more »
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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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Has anyone else seen this increase in competition on MSN? As MSN has been in 'no mans land' for a while, this may be a precursor to a MSN update, perhaps? read more »
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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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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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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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Finally Microsoft Launched Live Search Webmaster Portal. Right now it is available in beta version. Try it now. read more »
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This is great to hear. Haven't had a chance to really compare the numbers, but hopefully more accurate than the pseudo-queries used to get this. And, interesting, looks like they can actually handle a little better slice and dice than the other guys read more »
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MSN's Live Search Webmaster Portal just became Webmaster Center, but I don't think anyone will care much about the name change, but rather the fact that the private beta is now a public beta. read more »
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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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Live Search or MSN is now showing backlinks, but they also offer a new trick, you can also do backlinks searches for pages containing specific keyword phrases. read more »
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