my 4 day old site just got indexed today in msn and it ranks number 2 for a very popular keyword. its a keyword that is searched for over 25000 times a month according to the overture keyword selector. why is it so easy to get ranked in MSN?
to be honest i'm not sure. i think 90% is due to having a good domain thats relevant to the keyword i'm targeting, full use of title, h1, <b>, alt and title tags. also packing the content with the keyword and having a site map. also good clean html. after i made the site i placed one link on another site and a few forum posts and bob is your uncle. its only indexed 2 pages but still has number 2 position. i would give a link to the site but people have warned against doing that.
The URL is not the only thing IMHO. I have seen some very good URLs but they don't rank that well. My site didn't have a keyword based URL but I was there on page 1 (then I was shunt) (only lord knows why)
I dont know how MSN works,yet it the best for me. Unlike all others,it shows the most revelant content that im looking for.Also it indexes the whole site FAST,and if you have good stuff,it send a good ammount of traffic back!
also depends on your key words density in your content. You cant just have them in the meta tag they have to rate above 4% for that key work to really matter
Yes, in a few weeks of search indexing, I was ranked 12th on MSN but still in the 650+ range on Google. It wasn't for an incredible keyword, but it was for a keyword none the less.
I have in my domain the exact keyword I'm targeting, 267 links in msn (but I have more links in total, yahoo shows 380), I have 1 PR7 link and a few PR6 and PR5 links, full on-site optimized, 5 months old website, my keyword hasn't much competition and I still rank not so good in MSN. Why so unlucky? @ mistermix I think you can mantain your N.2 rank only for a few days, IMO your site will drop soon like many others that have reached top ranking in few days.
MSN is the by far the quickest to rank highly on, but they also drop you very fast as well. Everyone wants google because it's more stable, in addition to more searches.
absolutely msn is easy it took me like 3 months to get on top for keyword "forum rating" even though its my domain name itself, new domains in google its difficult, very fast in msn ! same keyword was on top in msn in weeks i guess
taking 3 months for "forum rating" doesn't really rock my world For such obscure terms it's easy to get top rankings in google as well.
Yes you are right. At the moment msn has only crawled 2 pages but still ranks by site number 2. I havent had any traffic yet though. google has just indexed the home page this morning but nothing appears in serps yet. I will repost my here when things change...