MSN beta definetly weighing IBL's

[cgo85]

Just checked some of my keywords on MSN beta. Currently I'm ranking in the top 3 for some terms that I don't even have the text on my landing page (some in alt tags though). But I think my high ranking is coming from IBL's from the COOP. Anyone else seeing this?

[caroline]

Yes. It's definitely the backlinks. I am seeing great results with some sites as well!

[compar]

There also seems to be a high coorelation with the keywords in the titles on the sites that I have checked.

I agree that IBL is very significant. What I haven't determined is, is that just the number of IBLs or is it related to the anchor text used in the inbound links? Has anybody tried to do this analysis?

[I, Brian]

Google may be slow to impact the Britecorp link network links, but MSN is certainly counting them - and they are definitely having an impact there. :D

http://beta.search.msn.com/

Just beautiful. :)

[darqSHADOW]

Well, my primary site has hardly any in-bound links, yet I'm ranking in the top 10 for all of my targetted keywords. =) And MSN has spidered 25k pages this month on the site, as well, up from 0 last month.

DS

[schlottke]

I think its just the # of IBLs, the keywords cannot play a large role, because I have a couple sites #1 for keywords I've never linked with and only use in the title.

[Las Vegas Homes]

So how relevant or irrelevant do you see MSN compared to Google now for your industry. Is this a better way to rank websites or does this open more doors to spam and blackhat.

I have noticed in my industry, real estate on MSN several of the websites that run doorway pages are not ranking. As I have stated in other post MSN and Yahoo have a 2 to 1 ratio in traffic over Google. MSN traffic is only a little shy of Google now.

The real estate leads that are also coming in seem to have better conversion rates than G as well.