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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: Gab 261 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Months ago, MSN changed bots to detect cloaking. Result?
"Every single domain I had is still in Yahoo or MSN. That is not a good sign for them. Some of these are way older than a cloaked domain should be." - XMCP read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 9:18 am
Posted By: Sebastian 292 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft Live Search upgrades their crawler today. From now on msnbot/1.1 supports conditional GET requests and HTTP compression. That's a very much appreciated move. I've chatted with Nathan Buggia from Live Search who was kind enough to provide m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 5, 2007 - 12:34 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 362 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
They promised us a reverse DNS their IPs to search.live.com but they are not. So now we may be blocking their spiders from crawling us. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 30, 2007 - 9:03 am
Posted By: toddmintz 367 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.pdxtc.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Certainly news to me. Implications are pretty big because though MSN will likely find, spider & index the new site, the new site won't get any credit for the work done on the old site.

Scott Hendison asks why this is...I confess that I can't thi read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 10, 2007 - 3:31 am
Posted By: SimonHeseltine 388 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.rba.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Karen Blakeman lets everyone know that the link: and linkdomain: commands work again on MSN / Live, all you have to do is prefix the command with a + sign to get it to work. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: November 7, 2007 - 11:52 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 389 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
From Barry: "It is currently in a private beta, so I am not even sure if I can blog this, but I read all the privacy pages, and most are returning not found errors, so I am going to post these screen captures for you." read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: October 4, 2007 - 11:01 am
Posted By: chriswinfield 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft, which runs Live Search and is the parent company of aQuantive, which owns Avenue A Razorfish, is now partnering with another search marketing firm, The Search Agency, to offer SEO and Paid Search Marketing services to small businesses. I read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 25, 2007 - 12:06 pm
Posted By: rustybrick 495 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
After waiting and not knowing if Microsoft supports Sitemaps, they finally have said they accept them via your robots.txt file. You cannot ping nor upload your sitemap via a console yet. But that is "coming soon." read more »
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