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MSN dropping pages out the index (In: MSN Search Engine)
Social Media Optimization is it all about traffic (In: General Search Engine Optimization)
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cluecase
Joined: Jan 31, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Mar-05 00:02
I love the "new" MSN, and I have been getting great results with it. Imagine how elated I've been when watching those MSN commercials about their new search engine. But low and behold, I check traffic everyday, and rarely I get visitors from MSN.
My keyword is competitive, and I'm always in the top 5.
Once again, I am not complaining, I really like MSN, can anyone tell me why isn't poplular??
Thank you,
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Dinkar
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Joined: Aug 12, 2001
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Posted: 2006-Mar-05 06:27
Why? May be people don't like Microsoft brand??
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dirty_shame
Joined: Aug 28, 2005
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Posted: 2006-Mar-05 11:30
Couple of things come to mind:
MSN is very fast, but Microsoft's income isn't based upon the success of their search engine like Google and Yahoo!. Their software is their mainstay.
It is also a matter of prevailing attitudes and marketing. Google and Yahoo are (currently) the golden children of search engines. So were IBM, Digital, Apple, Netscape and scores of others. But the trend is avant garde and wishes to award entrepeneurs and IPOs rather than long-term industry giants. It is always that way.
The only reason you are not getting traffic is because people aren't using MSN to search, period, even though it's embedded in their browsers. It won't stay that way, but I know you can't wait for the social attitude to change in order to realize better SEO results so optimize for everybody else in the mean time.
MSN is an 800 pound gorilla laying in the weeds.
PS: IBM, Digital and Apple never tied to produce or run SEs themselves, they are just post partum victims. But InfoSeek, AltaVista, Meta-this, Meta-that, etc...certainly qualify. AOL is "enhanced", Overture sold out and everything is volitile. In the mean time I expect all of my sites to rise to the top position in MSN about four years after I'm dead.
[ Message was edited by: dirty_shame 03/05/2006 03:46 am ]
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dudibob
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
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Posted: 2006-Mar-06 10:54
MSN seem alright, and things will be interesting when they release there new SE in (supposidly (I can't speel  )) 6 months.
I agree with Dirty here, G and Yahoo! are the better two, if MSN isn't careful, Ask will knock them off the number 3 spot...
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