Ok, I just don't know. I have a website, zero incoming links and it's at top 5 in msn for a competitive keyword. I have very well linked websites, 3 years old domains and the're not even indexed in MSN. What i know for sure: - website url is very important - good keywords placement is important - meta is important - links are not important What i don't know: - how to get indexed fast ?
read this seo blog about getting indexed fast. covers the basics and includes submitting sitemaps to msn... http://searchengineoptimizationplus.com/
I am not convinced MSN still has it right from Oct 1st last year, it certainly is not getting more traffic or searches. I have given up on them. In better words I think there are still too many glitches that is making weird results in most sectors. We know it can;t deal with 301s very well, this means some of my sites with redirects are performing poorly because of this. It may be it is cheaper to buy Yahoo than fix its own internal issues.
I have about 300-600 uu from this one keyword from msn - it's worth to index for me because i did nothing to get there, I've even forgot about this website. Thanks