Has Anybodys MSN Traffic Dropped Off?

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    Has anyone noticed if their sites have had a drop in traffic for MSN?

    A couple of mine have. Sites are still indexed and ranking.
    I was wondering if it has anything to do with the switch to Live.
     
    domfos, Sep 21, 2006 IP
  2. Plantation

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    I read your post, looked up, and low and behold my website is nowhere. What's happening? Traffic zero past week.
     
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  3. Mong

    Mong ↓↘→ horsePower

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    i really now don't consider MSN as serious search engine.
    It is just search engine for presense with Yahoo and Google.

    totally non-serious team at MSN.

    huge drop from last year... this year is worst with MSN. :(
     
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    wmburg Active Member

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    Yep, Live hasn't been sending referrer information.
     
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  5. domfos

    domfos Well-Known Member

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    My traffic appears to be back now.

    I agree that MSN is not so good, but when my new sites get sandboxed by google, MSN still brings in the dollars.
     
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  6. mad4

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    As wmburg said, a bug in the switch from MSN to live.com this week meant that MSN wasn't sending any referrer details. The traffic was still the same but the visitors will have shown up as direct traffic rather than MSN traffic.
     
    mad4, Sep 21, 2006 IP
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    maney Active Member

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    #7
    My traffic is down quite a bit too despite ranking nicely in it :(
     
    maney, Sep 21, 2006 IP
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    zee Banned

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    The traffic is overall not impressive lately yeah so I agree something is up.
     
    zee, Sep 21, 2006 IP
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    i cant seem to find any links to my site in msn
     
    jnash, Sep 21, 2006 IP
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    Would you say this change of traffic has something to do with change of rank from msn.com and live.com?
     
    mahmood, Sep 21, 2006 IP
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    I never get hits from MSN anyway, so no difference here :)
     
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    i'm actually getting same amount of traffic from msn. I didnt notice much change for my sites.
     
    1ahosting, Sep 21, 2006 IP
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    mine traffic had a sudden boost today in msn
     
    timothy104, Sep 21, 2006 IP
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    A couple of my sites have completely disapeared off of msn
     
    Kyle H., Sep 21, 2006 IP
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    I just checked mine and I'm placing #2 on MSN.
     
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    I have good rankings for most of my keywords at msn, but they bring 10% of the traffic my bad rankings bring from google.
    I don't do any SEO for MSN
     
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    adacprogramming Well-Known Member

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    There have been some problems with MSN not showing refferals when they reffer to your site. Web Pro world has a good thread on it. It is a problem known by MSN.

    Typical symptoms, Your ranking in the search engine is the same for your normal seach terms, but you do not see any refferals in your stats.

    this started on 9-14-06 when they switched to the live search.
     
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    The problem was fixed yesterday so you will have seen a big jump up in MSN traffic yesterday.
     
    mad4, Sep 22, 2006 IP
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    Yea, traffic is back to normal from MSN :)
     
    MLDesigners, Sep 22, 2006 IP
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    my website is indexed by MSN and when I search it I get 100+ results from MSN!
     
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