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MSN reducing links

Discussion in 'Bing' started by William Martin, Jun 20, 2006.

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    I've seen some drastic reductions in the amount of links MSN is showing to my sites. I'm not really bothered, cos MSN is a waste of space when it comes to driving traffic, however, these are some of the drastic changes I've seen:

    Site 1:
    24/5/06 - 1106
    29/5/06 - 1070
    1/6/06 - 1063
    6/6/06 - 1087
    10/6/06 - 1171
    20/6/06 - 110

    Site 2:
    24/5/06 - 207
    29/5/06 - 294
    1/6/06 - 284
    6/6/06 - 317
    10/6/06 - 341
    20/6/06 - 28

    Source = MarketLeap

    Anyone know what's going on? As I said, it will have no impact on traffic cos I never get any from them anyway, it's just the principal of the matter. :p
     
    William Martin, Jun 20, 2006 IP
  2. alemcherry

    alemcherry Guest

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    They are getting strict about MFAs. I had few thousands of links coming from few MFAs, (not mine, I just happened to be in top 10 for a keyword, which they screen scrapped from google results to all pages!). Now they are all gone and my total backlinks also reduced considerably.

    other than that, i didnt see any change!

    I love MSN btw, good for new websites till getting out of google sandbox!
     
    alemcherry, Jun 20, 2006 IP
  3. alemcherry

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    It could also be that, they report the number of pages in total sometimes, instead of the number of links. In that case, your actual links could be 10*results shown by marketleaps. Their automated acript fails to understand the difference. You may actually try it directly rather than using the stupid tools!
     
    alemcherry, Jun 20, 2006 IP
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    tvelasquez Peon

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    Just a few days ago I had about 4900+ links now I have 149, however, I'm still on the first page for my main keyword.
     
    tvelasquez, Jun 20, 2006 IP
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    yeah I had about 2500+ and now im like 150 :/
     
    cwvps, Jun 20, 2006 IP
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    This doesn't sound good for new sites such as mine. What do you think? Will this be better or worse for new sites?
     
    JWilson, Jun 20, 2006 IP
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    I noticed links have been dropping but you had a pretty drastic drop. I bet they have changed what they consider an inbound link. Perhaps they no longer count every link when looking at site wide links.
     
    Web Gazelle, Jun 20, 2006 IP