Our site, http://www.CardsShoppe.com, has enjoyed excellent search term positions in all three of the major search engines during the past three or four years. However, all that has changed in MSN during the past four weeks. Where MSN use to show nearly 4,000 entries when I entered, http://www.cardsshoppe.com, it now is showing only a dozen or so, AND all those are VERY old listings. MSN has not crawled this site for the past month. I have checked everything I know to do, but have not found the problem. We continue to show good search term positions on Google and Yahoo. The problem only appears to be on MSN, FOR NOW??? I would greatly appreciate any observation, comments and/or suggestions anyone has regarding the site. Thanks
I dont want to raise any flags.. but I feel your website has been blacklisted i.e banned as it doesnt show with the "site:" but shows the backlinks with "link:" command. You can try contacting for reinclusion.
MSN has gotten better (?) at devaluing sites if they detect a lot of low-quality inbounds. Of course this opens the door to knocking out your competition....
I don't think links are our problem. We are proud of our incoming and outbound links, and we understand the importance of GOOD, qualility and relative links. Is it possible?? Our server crashed about a month ago (about the time we started having the problems with MSN listings), and our site was down for over 24 hours. Could have caused the problem with http://www.cardsshoppe.com The case against this possibility is that we have a half dozen other sites on the same server and none of them have lost a "beat" on MSN. I am really at a loss as to what the cause could be. Thanks for your input and assistance.
I was #1 and #2 in msn for almost 2 years and about 3 weeks ago fell out of the top 100 for 2 days.I am back to# 9 now so it is not just your website it has happened to.
That is somewhat comforting, BUT my site is missing altogether from MSN. As the previous post indicated, type in site:http://www.cardsshoppe.com in the search bar, and no listing is found. To me, that means that MSN does not have it indexed at all. But, thanks for your input!!
One thing that jumps out at me is that your keywords are repeated much to often in my view. You really don't have much content, just paragraphs made up of the same KWs over and over. Because of the very long KW loaded sentences, your Fog index is 45. That means the number of years of formal education that the average person would need to comprehend your content is 45 years, a bit scary. The word 'invitations' appears 248 times, and the word 'cards' appears 194. Although I don't now if this is the problem, it looks spammy and I think it will eventually hurt you in all three major SEs. I'd clean it up, using real sentences and request reinclusion. /tom/
If you look at our positions in Google, you will find that we have a dozen or so key search terms in the top five positions. Try "baby shower invitationis", "business invitations", "moving announcements", "moving cards", "party invitations", "graduation invitations", "bereavement cards", "invitations announcements", "children birthday invitations", "birthday Invitations", "baby invitations", "bridal shower Invitations" "shower invitations" and so on. If a site is too spammy, wouldn't the search engines just exclude any listings rather than BAN the site altogether? Thanks, for your input. I am not making excuses, but merely clarifying our site. We welcome all input and analysis. Thanks
I agree you need to clean up the website a bit.they dont give #1 to the site with the most repeats of a key word. This is the page i was #1 in for "free bingo money "for 2 years . the keyword is in the page only 4 times plus in the title and keywords http://www.garysmomsbingopage.com/freecash.htm
No they wouldn't necessarily just exclude the site. They *might* ban it. Again, I don't know if this is the cause of your M$N issue, but I feel that any human reviewing a request for re-inclusion would be very likely to take one look and say "request denied". Just because your position in G and Y! is currently good, doesn't mean that either will tolerate the level of keyword use you currently employ. Each engine is different. I would not interpret the good results with two SEs as "the problem must be with M$N". I'd take a hard, critical look at my site. In other words, I would take the message from M$N as an opportunity to do a close review of my site, make whatever improvements I could, and request re-inclusion. /tom/
Perhaps you should contact them and ask for the reason. MSN is good at answering emails and they are fairly reasonable.
could it because someone hack into msn and blacklist your site?? have read sometime ago in this forum about hacking
How can someone hack into MSN? If they did hack into MSN, how could they Blacklist my site? Neither one of these suggestions makes any sense to me. But I thank you for the ideas. It is certainly better than the one above it suggesting I was removed for Lack of Links.