I recently bumped into http://www.mseo.com which is the website of a search engine promotion company offering multilingual SEO services in 28 languages! They have a cool short quiz to test your international online knowledge. Here are the questions: 1 - GOOGLE ™ reports that its global traffic from outside the US represents: (a) 10% (b) Between 15% and 45% (c) More than 50% 2 - Where is the largest Japanese online community outside Japan? (a) Los Angeles (b) Vancouver (c) Sao Paulo 3 - Simplified Chinese refers to Chinese markets in: (a) Mainland China (b) Hong Kong, Taiwan 4 - How many people speak Arabic as their native language? (a) 50 million + (b) 150 million + (c) 250 million + 5 - The most popular search engine in China is: (a) Google (b) Yahoo (c) Baidu 6 - The largest online market outside the US is: (a) Germany (b) China (c) Japan 7 - Proportionally to its population, the highest percentage of internet users is in the following country: (a) USA (b) Sweden (c) Japan 8 - There are more internet users in: (a) Europe (b) North America (c) Asia 9 - In South America, what is the proportion of Spanish-speaking internet users vs. Portuguese/Brazilian internet users: (a) 85% Spanish – 15% Portuguese/Brazilian (b) 65% Spanish – 35% Portuguese/Brazilian (c) almost 50/50 10 - In Europe, the largest Internet community is in the following country: (a) UK (b) Germany (c) France To get the answers, go to the following webpage: http://www.mseo.com/quiz/quiz.html .
It depends on the niche of the site, if msn gets a large number of hits on that term then yes I seo for it, would be foolish not to do the easy seo that msn needs to rank high.
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Yes. This happened to my sites also. In fact, few sites I own rank nowhere in Google rank very high in MSN. Interesting... But have you tried this or can anyone confirm this would work? Sounds decent in a way even though a little bit spammy. MSN isn't too strict compared to Google, but then no reason to SEO with a risk.
msn didn't follow my 301 redirects... it just has them listed as "this page has moved" and I'm sure I did it correctly because google follows them... I did them in the .htaccess file. Has any body else had this problem
Just to Clarify, in my listing for MSN results, where it says 'first sentence=phrase' I mean to include the phrase in the first sentance, NOT to be the only sentence. and also 'first paragraph in bold=phrase' mean to include the phrase in bold in the first paragraph, NOT for it to be the only thing in bold in the first paragraph. I dont think the run down is spammy at all, but then this is about opinions.
My incoming traffic from msn is dead low as well ... a few months ago I tended to receive more from there, though. I guess they don't throw that much effort into the optimization of their algorithms ...
I just redesigned a website about a month ago. MSN has listed the redirected url's with the old url's - so now there are 400 + plus webpages listed despite only actually having 100. Google has now nearly all of the url's with the new pages. So has Yahoo, but some of the new pages are beginning to rank now. Ask hasn't changed at all. So Yahoo is the winner while Ask are at the bottom for this little test
I see very little traffic via MSN in comparison to Google and Yahoo, so I try to focus on what works. MSN, Ask, etc. - They pick up what they pick up and are just icing on the cake in my opinion.
Thanks for the info. Well, the only thing I haven't done much is the article submissions. I will test this and let you guys know if any change in the SERP
While Google continues to make steps forward, MSN is moving backwards. I hardly pay attention to MSN anymore.
the technique I described, I made a template for it when building some adsense scrapers way back last year. All the sites came in on MSN at top position for the chosen phrase. The phrases were not the best in the sector, but when I did these I never did any promotion, I just left them. With a better phrase and some promotion it would have helped. I use this technique still when building sites and it works. I have some urls knocking around so can do an experiment if enough interest. Being as it is MSN and very little to no traffic though, not sure it achieves anything.
Maybe it's a matter of choosing a better keyword then? I am sure some people are getting good traffic from MSN. After all it's the 3rd best SE. And I am sure millions of people use it. Probably we have to target a very competitive keywords though. But then I used to rank with this keyword, which was not so competitive and I was earning few bux everyday on adsense without much of SEO.
I was saying the phrases were not too competetive when referring to the method described, not referring to MSN working or not. I have lots of sites with strong phrases that score well on Yahoo, Google and even get good scores in AOL and ASK but not MSN.
I have found a site that is doing very similar thing that desybabe's MSN SEO techniques. I checked their backlinks and they didn't even have 30, but ranks well in MSN. All the backlinks are from article sites or blogs. *Maybe* the techniques really work??