I have a site that ranks #20 for an inner page (actually FAQ for my site) for my keywords Florida Bass Fishing (see my signature for my Florida Bass Fishing url) and another inner page in the 30's. Why are these pages outranking my home page in SERP in MSN. The only links to these pages are ones from my home page and internal links. Many external links point to my home page. Google and yahoo have what I expect for SERP, but MSN is really strange. Also, a month and a half ago, I was sharing #1 position with another site for those keywords in MSN, then they changed their algorithm, and now have the results as stated previously. Any clues what's going on here?
Of course it does. MSN is weird honestly, and some times gives more value to irrelevant inner pages for certain keywords, as far as I have seen MSN gives more value to older links, and with time, it will replace the ranking and rank the targeted page (or homepage) for that keyword.
Rep coming at ya Trapped. At least you and I have some consensus that MSN is just wierd and that there is really nothing that explains why the inner pages rank better with less SEO.
Site came back in MSN at #5 for my keywords! Doing OK in Google too, flipping between 10 and 11 Also, Yahoo finally uping it to #20
MSN + yahoo < Google MSN is the crapest of all 3 and the smallest and the most strange one so concentrate on Yahoo and mostly google