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      Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:47 AM
       
       
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      Are there any webmaster guidelines like the ones Google has to make the website compliant and optimal for MSNBOT crawling?

         

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      • Sunday, June 22, 2008 3:46 AM
         
         
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        I have researched the search engine business for years trying to get my content noticed. I use <meta...> tags, sitemap.xml and have ad feeds from all the major brokers so my site is on the radar as best as possible.

        Be sure each document has a title, description and keywords section in the header. Be sure each document is listed in the sitemap.xml document in the root of the site.

        Then manually submit the sitemap.xml to live.com and pray they do something with it. My server logs show little other than reading the file though. Goggle and Yahoo both are better at it but far from perfect.

           
        • Sunday, June 22, 2008 8:00 PM
           
           
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          I figured as much but I was wondering if there are any official guidelines published by Microsoft.

             
          • Sunday, June 22, 2008 8:04 PM
             
             
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            Unfortunately there are no such guidelines. MSN and live are widely known to be poor quality compared to Yahoo and Google bots.

             

               
            • Monday, June 23, 2008 2:40 AM
               
               
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              Thanks, mate!

               

              I actually though that my searching skills were declining.

               

                 
              • Monday, June 23, 2008 2:42 AM
                 
                 
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                No, live is a misnomer, should be called dead.

                 

                   
                • Friday, June 27, 2008 7:08 PM
                   
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                  Please review our technical documentation and our Guidelines for successful indexing.

                   

                  Thanks,

                   

                  Brett

                   

                     
                  • Friday, June 27, 2008 10:08 PM
                     
                     
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                    Been there, done that, the problem is the bot is slow and needs to be revised to be more effective. It should first look for a robots.txt file, and see if it has a sitemap section, and also should look for a sitemap.xml file.

                     

                    Then if found use them and add them to the index, otherwise they need to follow from index.html (or whatever the index is being called) and start looking at href tags and follow them adding them to the index as it follows.

                     

                    Etc.