Maybe this is a normal thing, but seems strange to me. 2 days ago, some keywords i have been targeting showed up for me in the 9th position on the first page on MSN. That was about 10PM. The next day (9am) I checked again, it was nowhere to be found in the first 10 pages. Last night I checked about 9PM and had my wife come verify that I wasnt crazy, and sure enough, it was on the first page, ninth position. So I check right now, 7AM, it is not in the first 10 pages at all??? Is this normal? I dont understand what is going on with that. I go from first page to completely gone depending on day or night.
My rankings vary from day to day also but in general only by a couple of places in MSN. In my experience if MSN "likes" some of your pages you can pretty much bet they will keep their rankings for a couple of months without any effort on your part. All you can do right now is forget about rankings and concentrate on adding more content and links. Also, don't expect too much traffic from MSN if you don't have the top position for your keywords.
Thanks for the info. the last 3 or so days, its actually remained the same, day or night for that keyword. Was strange. I wasnt taking it to hard, cause like you said, the traffic is very little if any so far on MSN.
I am seeing this as well for my websites. I was ranked on page 2 earlier this week (hardly any traffic) but now I am nowhere....not in top 5 pages (with 50 results on each page)..I didnt go further down to see the result as its worthless.