I find it very weird that now Msn does not put you sites in the top 10 so fast has it use to. It's seems to take forever now. My question is does Msn now have a sandbox like its competitors?
I'm still getting listed for new sites or new keywords faster in MSN than Y or G. Even recently for a test site I had which was testing "how do you get sandboxed by G". I successfully triggered the G sandbox, but M and Y still find the site ok.
I can get ranked for a search term in less than a week. If that is a sandbox then I wish Google's was like that.
I agree that MSN has no sandbox in the way that google does. Some good keyword density and a few decent backlinks should have you showing up in MSN in a relatively short period of time.
Then i guess Msn doesn't have a sandbox but i think its a little harder to get top rankings in Msn now then lets say a year ago.
Results doest rank competitiveness. I am ranked for a keyword on Google in the number 1 spot that returns over 500,000,000 results. The keyword is not competitive though. Short common words put together can return a ton of results but when you put 2 words together that dont usually go together it still returns a ton of results and that 2 word phrase isnt competitive. Understand? Example: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=car+none The search is for the keyword "car none". It means nothing at all and isnt competitive 1 bit. But returns 62 mil results. Point is the result returns of a normal search doesnt judge competition.