Hi, I have a website that ranks in the top 10 results for numerous keywords. About a week ago I bought a domain name, and deleted everything off of my site except for the index page which I have a link up to my new website. MSN still has the old cached page up. My question is.. is there a way to have MSN to always have the old cached page in their index without them updating it? I ask because having my old site in the top results for my keywords is invaluable. I put in the robots noindex, nofollow tag in hopes that the msn crawlers will not update the old cached page. Would this help my case, or would it just remove my site from index totally? It would be awesome if there's a way to keep an old cached page in the index forever. I've seen pages that were cached in the index from a very long time ago, yet there content was so much different than the cached page. So please let me know. Thanks..
You could check the user agent of the visitor. When the user agent starts with msnbot, you would have to show the old page to the MSN robot. If you want to do that, do not disallow access with robots.txt and do not use the noindex tag in the page. Be aware that, if, at some point MSN Search discovers what you did (should take time), this old site could be banned from its index. Jean-Luc
lol i don't have the slightest clue as to what you're talking about. How do I check the user agent of the visitor, and how would I show the old page with the msn robot? Could please clarify exactly what it is you're telling me to do?