hello all. recently developed a site (swing-trading.com) live.com has the site number 1 under "swing trading" google and yahoo.... not even in the top 200 what gives? any ideas? the site is about 3 months old
Site age is really important with Google and Yahoo. Older sites have more authority and are deemed as more relevant to search queries with those search engines. This is one factor that Google uses in determining what is an Authority Website. MSN Live will show new sites higher up with less back links and will place more emphasis on domain name key word relevancy than Google and Yahoo will.
build up good backlinks to your site with the keywords related to your site.. and be Patient... it will come up sooner or later.
I've had a few sites like that where they're not found in Google anywhere but rank high in Yahoo and MSN. Continue to build backlinks and give it time, it will show up in Google sooner or later.
The question is...did you do anything to get it top in Live? If you didn't then that is why you are nowhere to be seen in yahoo/google. There is a lot of competition in these search engines because a lot of people optomise for them. You have to build lots of backlinks with your keyword as the anchor text.
Google has a filter on new sites, in fact google has loads of filters, to stop spam etc, MSN does have these filters or they are not as sophisticated. Hence you can rank quickly here and not in google.