SEM/SEO Tips

I know many people in the SEO world will agree that MSN indexes websites the fastest, next is Yahoo and last is Google. Right after you make a website that is totally brand new, with a brand new domain name that has never been online, and you do search engine submissions to Google, Yahoo and MSN, experience has showed us that MSN/Live will index your website in 1 to 2 days. Yahoo will follow afterwards, and last will be Google.

I remember reading Google’s FAQs on crawling during the times the Google sitemaps were not yet created. Google said they crawl the internet once a month. And when it crawls it does not guarantee that your website will be crawled. And I am not sure if this was in late 2004 or early 2005, where I still remember a press release of MSN claiming they crawl the sites faster than Google at a rate of every other day. True enough, yes they did, but Google was still king of relevant results.

Today, with the constant improvement of Google Sitemaps, search engine submission on Google has some added precision to it. Although MSN and Yahoo are indeed still faster in crawling you and indexing your websites, but Google no longer seems to be that far behind. With the Google sitemaps, you can be indexed by Google in less than a week, and a few days does not really matter.

So is  MSN/Live and Yahoo really faster in indexing than Google?

The answer here is when you are just adding a new website to all 3 at the same time, I believe MSN/Live is still faster, next is Yahoo and last is Google. But if we are talking about reindexing, I think the case is totally the other way around.

For several Ituloy AngSulong SEO contest entries, I have been checking the index pages and looking at the cache and taking note of the cache dates. Google seems to be faster and more up-to-date with changes on my website, but Yahoo and MSN seem to take a longer time to update their index. But I guess one reason why Google is faster in this area of reindexing is because of the automated Google sitemaps creation I have along with an automated ping sent to Google sitemaps, a feature Yahoo and MSN does not have.

More IBLs help in SEO. Although having links from bad communities may just mean more trouble than benefit in SEO. Although any inbound link may help, they work best if the topics of the pages linking to your site are the same as what your site is all about.

Using free directories may help since search engine friendly directories are well categorized and you can simply add your website to the proper category where your site supposed to be added.

A search engine friendly directory are those with links without the nofollow attribute or does not use any type of redicting script for its links.

Below is a list of more than 850 free search engine friendly directories. (more…)

As reported by several SEO programmers on SEO Philippines, The MSN/Live API has been displaying results not similar to the actual results online. In fact they do not even look similar and are totally different.

Is this a sneak peek of what’s to come on MSN’s ranking results? Or is the API delayed and the actual results are the final results? Some people have decided to either read the MSN/Live RSS feeds or scrape the search results.

I wonder when will MSN/Live make things right?