Okay, I have noticed my site ranks ridiculously high on MSN, for some extremely competitive keywords (I know its easy to rank on msn). My site is fairly new, but has a few link backs now. I’m just wondering, does MSN rank new sites very well dependant on links, then at some point in the future, pull your SERP rank back down? It seems MSN acts as a new site traffic inducer, yahoo acts as the mid range, and Google acts as the long-term. I’m wondering if anyone else has ranked ridiculously high on MSN only to find that they disappear on msn as the age of the site increases. If so, I’m starting to feel a conspiracy theory of SE working a bit too closely together!
Yeah... exact same thing happened with my site... I had a #1 ranking for like a week when I first launched it, only in MSN.
My experience with MSN is that my site ranked very well for about 2 months on some big key words even though the traffic was very poor. At the end of the 2 months i dropped to pages 10+ ... Even though my site had more back links and now has a google pr7 it still does nothing in msn. Mysuggestion .... focus on the big 2 google and yahoo ...
Well, I have not experienced this with MSN. My website still ranks very low on MSN for my targeted keywords and it is relatively new.
msn does seem to like new sites, especially spammy ones. it is possible to retain good rankings with msn in the long term if you continue to add unique content to your site that's seo optimized for your keyword and you have good backlinks too.
Interesting but there's a shade of truth in it...my old website is always up in Google and Yahoo but not in MSN... Having seen all those posts from other forums where newbies jubilate for having their new site on the first page in MSN...I must say this could be true of MSN.
That's not a conspiracy.. The most general definition of a conspiracy is: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=conspiracy
When I released my sites in 3 weeks I was ranked on the first page. 3 months later the 3rd page. My google rankings and yahoo rankings have gone up over that time period while I seem to slip farther with msn as time goes on.
I ahve ranked high on MSN for some big words but the traffic is minimal. Surprisingly though the traffic was similiar as on Yahoo for the same keywords.
Could not the conspiracy be the fact that these three companies Microsoft Yahoo and Google are working together (hence my long term mid term short term argument), and there are laws against monopolising. All new webmasters love the MSN, since new sites get ranked well there, and this pulls in a lot of the traffic to begin with, then yahoo, then Google. It all works a bit to well, hand in hand shall we say As you slip off of MSN, you start to notice you slip onto Yahoo and Google. We’ve seen search engines come and go in the past, If they worked together they would hold the market indefinitely..... That’s the conspiracy my friend! If you don’t here from me again.... it could be due to being abducted by A Google-Yahoo-Msn UFO (or a G.Y.M as I like to call them) for saying things that they don’t want me to say in public
I noticed the same thing with msn , and there is another situation when you submit your site to msn from their site.After one day you can see your site when you look for "yourdomain.com" , but you can not see it on the serps. This is marketing , the newcomers say "hey look msn is so cool and fast , that old google did not indexed my site but msn did" But we know who the old wolf is , of course it is Msn. It dominates , but this time there is though guys , No way this time at least they change their vision.
Why not? If you could somehow eliminate the spammy results, it would ensure that visitors always get fresh information when searching for something. Not an entirely bad thing.
You must not worry at all, because Google seems to have a crush on MSN... to slap its rank as soon as it goes higher than 5 or 6
MSN is crap for people. I used to be a host on the MSN Gaming Zone and will continue to say Microsoft isn't the best in the world, although they are good for a few things I guess. As far as MSN Search, I don't use it any more, don't even hardly visit msn.com.