Hello all - I've recently re-designed a site that has been up for about a year and largely (read: entirely) neglected. No PR in Google at this point, and only 6 of the old pages are in MSN. My question is two-fold. First off, MSNBot is coming in and requesting pages that the old site linked to but that the new site does not (and there really is no reason to keep them). Would you generally think that it's better to let the 404 errors remain, or create "placeholder" pages just for the Bot? I ask because it could be that MSN would penalize for what they see as "broken links" in the site even though, technically, the site as it exists doesn't link to these pages. Secondly, other than gaining backlinks, is there anything in general that is recommended for getting the site to be spidered? I'm seeing MSNBot in my logs, as I noted, but it's operating as though it's "viewing" the old version of the site (a cached version). MSN's cache does, by the way, show the old site. Any comments/recommendations welcome. Thanks, ~Canton
I have noticed that even when posting to forums that a lot of these post get indexed within hours of the post. This tells me that MSn is on the ball and for this alone hurts google. I am very impressed with the rate at which MSN spiders new sites and changes. There are a lot of new real estate sites out there that love msn.
Las vegas Homes.....Too true MSN bots seems to be everywhere and one is never far behind the other. Ian