Is it possible that a site with thousands of backlinks in Yahoo, hundreds in Google and also hundreds in MSN to experience some sort of getting sandboxed? This is in relation with the Philippine SEO contest that is soon to end tomorrow night. The actual web site is #1 for many weeks in MSN before it got a major change is aesthetics in aim to win the best in design. All of a sudden it dropped to nowhere in the MSN SERPs for the contest keyword. Any additional infos are welcome because this might help other webmasters decipher MSN's habits and indexing behavior.
i've tried to search 300 links of about 30 pages now and it's still nowhere to be found to this time>>feb. 23, 1:25 am GMT or PST.
sanbox is a name. but the same concept is there with MSN. that is how sites get banned with MSN as well.
The sandbox has nothing to do with getting banned or indexed - and MSN doesn't have one anyway. MSN has gone to a real aggressive filter that bans sites based on certain types of backlinks. Do a search for indexed pages and if your home page isn't indexed, you were caught up in this filter - and good luck in getting a response from anyone at MSN.
this is great thread and for me it goes like this,,,,just do a site search in MSN and if you have no results, then there must be something wrong with your links, i heard they use a much strict filter system these days and your site might be just one of them who got the effect. could be due to so much build up of links because i have experienced it also but don't be afraid because it will surely be back quite some time. just continue your link building schemes and don't over do it.