Hi everyone I am confused: Most sites seem to get listed in MSN after about a month or less. My site has been officially open for over 2 months now (and was actually around in Beta for 3 months or so before that), I have 485 IBLs (today) according to their link: search and am listed on some large sites, like about.com, wikipedia, DMOZ and USA Today. Now, on another forum, I wondered aloud whether there might be an MSN sandbox and pretty much got shot down because (1) most other people are seeing good MSN rankings and so think it is wonderful, and (2) everyone is sick of talking about the G sandbox and don't want to consider the possibility that MSN might have a similar feature. The only other explanation I can think of is the physical location of my servers. The site is a .com (www.japanese-name-translation.com) but the servers are based in Japan. The reason I am wondering is that yesterday I was on the Japanese MSN page and noticed that it is still using the old search and refers to the new one as still being in Beta. Could it be that because my geographical location puts my servers in a region that is not yet covered by the full version of the new MSN search means that I am getting penalized by not having a proper listing? Or can anyone see any other reason why my MSN doesn't like my site?
There is no sandbox thats for sure. Im no where to be seen in google for my keywords but in msn i'm in the top 4 just bouncing around. Could be server location, haave you thought about mirroring to a us server at a slighty different domain to see what happens?
We don't have a US server unfortunately and being a small company we can't really afford to try this. *More musing* My site has been blogged and mentioned in Yahoo!News in Japan. Now these sites are based here in Japan, so maybe that isn't the reason after all. Is it something about my coding..... I am resigned to having to wait another few months for G, but with everyone else getting in MSN so quickly, I want to figure out what the problem is and work around it somehow.