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MSN Showing Keywords

Discussion in 'Bing' started by Chiara, Aug 15, 2005.

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    MSN seems to be picking up lots of new pages on my site, but on one listing I saw it first lists the meta description and then it lists the first few meta keywords! It looks horrible. Do they always do this?
     
    Chiara, Aug 15, 2005 IP
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    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    I have noticed that too. I suggest expounding on your meta description. Don't keyword stuff it though.
     
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  3. Chiara

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    Yeah, I realized I need a longer description now. Geez!
     
    Chiara, Aug 16, 2005 IP
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    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    Just look at how many characters are showing in the description for MSN and try to equal that in your meta description.
     
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    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    A site search for one of my sites on yahoo shows the inbound anchor text that is used to find the page. When I noticed the titles were like 6 months old is when I realized how many scraper sites were linking to me.
     
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  6. Chiara

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    I have a ton of scraper sites linking to me, too. It's like they have a sniffer for my site content. Do search engines penalize for that?

    I wonder if this keyword thing in MSN is the reason that, despite being top10 for many keywords in MSN now, I hardly get any clickthroughs from them? It looks spammy with all my keywords showing there. Ugh.
     
    Chiara, Aug 16, 2005 IP
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    i think yahoo could penalize for it.
     
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    Could very well be the reason. The good thing is MSN is fairly quick to update the changes in it's cache. :)
     
    Web Gazelle, Aug 17, 2005 IP
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    Yahoo might penalize if bad sites link to you? That would be awful!

    I'm glad to hear MSN changes the cache often. :)
     
    Chiara, Aug 17, 2005 IP