MSN is freaky (same page ranked twice)

I have a site where the homepage bounces between the first and second page, seemingly a few times a week.

I did my keyword check this morning, and I had dropped one space but was still on the front page. Then I went back and looked at my logs and saw someone referred from the second page. I ran the search myself and suprisingly enough the SAME PAGE is ranked both at number 8 on the first page (cache date 10/29/05) and on the second page at number 12 (cache date 10/30/05]).

So right now I am listed for the same page twice, just with different cache dates.

Is this a common occurence?

I imagine it is going to finish re-ranking me and drop me back to the second page with a single listing. I saved both caches though so I can check them and figure out why one is better than the other.

 

Yeah, I have seen that sort of thing also. they have some bugs to work out still.

 

You mean the same exact .html page? Or just same domain name but different .html extension name?

 

Same exact page. Seems to happen when they are updating the cache.

 

The same thing has happened to a couple of my sites... I'm not complaining!

 

I see today that there is a page ranked both at number 1 and 39 for a site I am working with.

 

the crazy thing is, we saw this happen on Google a week or two ago... the same exact site was ranked twice for a keyword phrase on most of the data centers... do you think this was just been a fluke during the updates or something?

 

I've noticed this with Google and Yahoo as well. I'm not sure what to think.

 

Yep it happens alot.
It's Called Lost in pages

Joking...

 

Well, if that really happens, a bonus for the web owner of that fortunate page then, double the traffic

 

well i'm ranked #1 for many keywords on msn and still no traffic really maybe 5 hits per day from msn, I don't no what msn uses to rank sites but i like their rankings, if only i would have my msn rankings on google...

 

If your keywords are not high competiton, you won't see alot of traffic. Google will give more traffic but I have never seen more that 10-1 ratio for Google to MSN.