Apr
13
MSN Bug - page count way off
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Doing a search for site: I’m getting (domain examplified):
Page 1 of 295 results containing site:example.com (0.53 seconds) (with SafeSearch: Strict)
No, there are 50 pages indexed, which you can see when you click on page 5 at the bottom. This is happening with every site I check, for quite a while.
Apr
12
Value of MSN Traffic
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There’s a thread going at WebmasterWorld about getting traffic from MSN, with this comment from Robert Charlton
>I can tell you the first page rankings don’t help.
They sure do in certain niches, lucky for me! It can even help to have second page rankings in some cases. There are folks in certain target markets who will search deep and long to find exactly what they’re looking for.
I accidentally found that out a few years ago when doing an SEO consultation on a small client site with a well-defined, very specific target market. That was back when Looksmart and Inktomi results were still running on MSN. I was shocked to find referrals to her site that came from the 5th and 6th pages of MSN search results - legitimate ones. I made a mental note of that, noticed it again and again afterwards, and it’s true to this day.
Apr
11
Censored by Yahoo Search Blog :-)
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Yep, censored for objectionable content. At http://www.ysearchblog.com/
I’ve posted a few times before with this URL in the field where you put your blog if you have one. So I had put this URL in. Now, when I try to post a comment I get this message:
Your comment could not be submitted due to questionable content: marciahoo.com
Huh?
Apr
4
Papers authored by Krishna Bharat
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I just came across a page with a bibliography of papers authored or co-authored by Krishna Bharat and some of them are real gems