when i did a PR release on PRweb for the next week my rankings in MSN where in top 5 but then went back down dont know if it is coorelation or not.
At the moment I don't think anybody knows what MSN is doing and how they are crediting links but in the past they wouldn't notice any difference between links or not much at least.
i think article submissions help. I submitted a few articles and linked to some deep pages for my cooking site from within the articles. Now those pages have been indexed and coming in SERPs. It could be due to the indexing effect, but the articles helped in it. Had i tried to get link exchanges for these pages, it wouldn't have been easy... so IMO, articles do help.
I'm not sure whether they really consider the quality of the backlinks. Backlinks generally are weighted less than for other search engines; but still, any links generated by articles (or whatever) will help.
Bots are small programs running on the Internet. They find the path using back links. So higher back links mean it is easier to find your site. Sites, which have higher page rank means many sites are linking back to that site. So bots will visit that site often. If there is a link to your site in that site, it means that bot will visit to your site using that link. That is why the higher page ranked back links are important in Google. Since Yahoo and MSN does not using page-ranking algorithm the quality of back links are not very important.
hey hey, if they dont make page-ranking public that doesn't mean they dont use it I'm pretty sure msn has it's own algo for link quality..about yahoo...it seems to like spammy mass links
We put out an article and went to top 4 for the targeted keyword and then dropped right back down to 60ish. The drop was in their update a couple of weeks ago so I don't know what the correlation is.