My site has been up for more than a year. It is being spidered by search engines (google, yahoo, live, ask, lycos) on a daily basis as according to awstats. My sites are indexed in all the above search engines except LIVE SEARCH. When i do a search on live, the results are all the sites which links to my site, but my site is no where. Looks like they have removed my domain or something. Is this possible? Or, getting indexed by live search worth it? Again, awstats shows that there are 87 links from live search. Well, how is that possible? And one more thing is that of all the search engines, it is "MSNBot-media" that does the more crawling and which eats the most bandwidth. Well any light on this will be appreciated?
Live Search Was the Worst Search Engine... But not anymore... Now its super fast... and is becoming more powerful day by day.... Dont say that its worst just because your site is not in their index
Yeah I hate live search too, right when msn switched over to live search all my sites (which ranked top 10 for the past 1-2 years) are no where to be found within a couple weeks.
One of my sites keeps appearing and disappearing in live search index - it is frustrating and I have queried it with them and the reply I got indicated some technical problems. (it is currently not indexed and normally 3-5 pages get indexed again and a few days later they disappear) However, the annoying thing is that sites I reported as spam sites seem to now have better search results than they used to - while I have noticed several other established sites in this niche also appearing/disappearing in live.com - but the spam sites seem to be ever present. It may be a lack of links into my site - but I dont spam 100s of links everywhere (maybe that is what you have to do to get into live.com index? - though checking most other sites of mine, it is confusing as to why this particular one is not indexed)
Ive always liked it but they are making changes and adding new features like webmaster tools improved algo. ect.. Actually you may be baned for some unknown reason.. Then again may be due to the recent changes Id relax double check your withen the guiedlines and then Be paitent.. good luck
It would be good to know if a site was banned. Though according to FAQ for reasons why a site may not be listed: And All guidelines for submission on live.com are met and adhered to. For me, it is not a problem that it isn't indexed really - it is just very frustrating not knowing why it isn't being kept in the index