Comments on: MSN Optimization http://seo4fun.com/blog/2006/04/08/msn-optimization.html Search Engines | Blogs | Marketting | PHP/MYSQL | CSS Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:10:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Dan Thies http://seo4fun.com/blog/2006/04/08/msn-optimization.html#comment-82 Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:02:13 +0000 http://seo4fun.com/blog/2006/04/08/msn-optimization.html#comment-82 Another way of looking at this is "MSN has a very primitive approach to link analysis." Google doesn't have to worry as much about on-page stuff, they can flatten out the curve on that because they are doing a lot of link analysis stuff. I haven't found that MSN-friendly on page optimization is necessarily bad for Google or Yahoo, but YMMV and it's worthy of testing. Is it possible to over-optimize and cheese off the Googlebot, while still ranking well on MSN? Would backing off of the on-page stuff a bit (to get back up in Google's results) really be that harmful to your MSN ranking? BTW, saw your notes on noindex and whether that could be a negative - I doubt you'll find much if you look at Google, but of course with Googlebot you can put wildcards in your robots.txt so noindex isn't needed nearly as often there. Where I'd be concerned would be with Ask, MSN, and Yahoo, where you can't assume that they'll do a deep crawl. Another way of looking at this is “MSN has a very primitive approach to link analysis.” Google doesn’t have to worry as much about on-page stuff, they can flatten out the curve on that because they are doing a lot of link analysis stuff.

I haven’t found that MSN-friendly on page optimization is necessarily bad for Google or Yahoo, but YMMV and it’s worthy of testing. Is it possible to over-optimize and cheese off the Googlebot, while still ranking well on MSN?

Would backing off of the on-page stuff a bit (to get back up in Google’s results) really be that harmful to your MSN ranking?

BTW, saw your notes on noindex and whether that could be a negative - I doubt you’ll find much if you look at Google, but of course with Googlebot you can put wildcards in your robots.txt so noindex isn’t needed nearly as often there. Where I’d be concerned would be with Ask, MSN, and Yahoo, where you can’t assume that they’ll do a deep crawl.

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