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Avatar Posted By: seobook 547 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: googlelady 540 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.googlelady.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2007 - 12:06 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 533 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 Posted By: HustlinGrind 514 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://kylehealey.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
beta.search.msn is now ranking the Myspace redirect #1 for a fairly competitive term. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: seoz87 504 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://seoz.wordpress.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Atlast msn accepts SEO read more »
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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 504 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://philbradley.typepad.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Posted By: MikeO 504 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 504 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: GotanRaider 490 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blackhatseodiary.org)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Posted By: Justin-Goldberg 482 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.marketposition.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Posted By: Noobliminal 474 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: KMM15 470 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.isedb.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Posted By: toddmintz 469 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Microsoft SEO
Organic traffic from MSN.com has remained constant. Anyone else see something like this? read more »
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Avatar Posted By: kevgibbo 464 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchengineguide.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
A couple of useful tips to improve rankings in MSN. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: JamesOmdahl 463 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.insuremeblog.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2007 - 11:01 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 462 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 Posted By: BritAlex 434 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.metamend.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Posted By: rustybrick 434 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 Went Hot: November 7, 2007 - 11:52 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 428 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 10, 2007 - 3:31 am
Posted By: SimonHeseltine 427 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 Posted By: gunjanpandya 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.liveside.net)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Finally Microsoft Launched Live Search Webmaster Portal. Right now it is available in beta version. Try it now. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: identity 421 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Posted By: identity 419 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.cnet.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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Avatar Posted By: WaltVerastegui 419 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: bigoak 415 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.bigoakinc.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
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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