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<title>Sphinn / Hot Today / Microsoft SEO</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:59:45 PDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is MSN Lying About Their Referrer Spam?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/34703</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/34703</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:59:45 PDT</pubDate>
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<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Months ago, MSN changed bots to detect cloaking. Result?&quot;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.&quot; - XMCP<br/><br/>46 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MSNbot/1.0 is defunct - Long live MSNbot/1.1 that saves you bandwidth costs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/28169</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/28169</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:18:04 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
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<description><![CDATA[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<br/><br/>38 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MSNBot Lies In Reverse DNS Test]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/17263</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/17263</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:34:47 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/17263</guid>
<description><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>25 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MSN / Live Bot Does Not Follow 301 Redirects?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/16345</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/16345</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:03:53 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Certainly news to me.  Implications are pretty big because though MSN will likely find, spider &amp; 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<br/><br/>39 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Live.com link commands are back]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/13093</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/13093</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:31:53 PST</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/13093</guid>
<description><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>53 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[First Screen Shots of Microsoft's Live Search Webmaster Portal]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/12914</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/12914</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:52:20 PST</pubDate>
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<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/12914</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From Barry: &quot;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.&quot;<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Joins Google in Offering SEO Services, Is This Ethical?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/8209</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/8209</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:01:39 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/8209</guid>
<description><![CDATA[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<br/><br/>59 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sitemaps Autodiscovery Finally Comes to Live Search]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/1381</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/1381</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:06:39 PDT</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/1381</guid>
<description><![CDATA[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 &quot;coming soon.&quot;<br/><br/>31 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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