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Not appearing on MSN....what have I done wrong?

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Hi
First time posting
I'm just wondering if anyone could tell me what I may be doing wrong - I submitted site & sitemap to MSN, Yahoo & Google all around the same time - Google & Yahoo are ok, but I don't show up in MSN. I checked in the webmaster area, and no errors/blocked notification evident, but site status is all N/A.
Also - I had submitted the "www.site_name...." version of my site, but interstingly when I also wanted to submit the non www version, (ie: "http://site_name.....") I got a "this does not exist" message - although it does.
(my site is www.partykitnkaboodle.com.au)
many thanks & if someone could shed some light, be most appreciative
SThursday, October 23, 2008 10:26 PM
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Thanks Yoogle!
Sammy, out of curriosity, why did you want to submit both? I noticed you have not canonicalized your site (redirected either the non www to www or visa versa). This can have a very large impact on your rankings.
Brett
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:58 PM
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How long has it been since you last submitted your sitemap and url?
Friday, October 24, 2008 2:28 PM -
Hi & thanks for your reply...
has been a couple of weeks nowSunday, October 26, 2008 8:54 AM -
Title:
This tag contains too many characters.
This tag contains 89 characters. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this tag is 80.
Description:
This tag contains too many characters.
This tag contains 370 characters. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this tag is 250.
Keywords:
Keyword relevancy to page content is very poor. However, this is not necessarily bad if you have a lot of content. The most important factor is to have your keywords on the page a few times.
The keywords relevancy to page content is 50%.
Robots:
Found no robots meta tag.
This tag is not really required but helps spiders to index the web page.
Author:
The Author meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 31 characters.
Web page analysis.
The size of the web page is 63918 bytes.
The web page load time.
The web page load time is 3 seconds.
//Any Ways
In the ROOT of your website add in a text file called
robots.txt
and in the file add in the following
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: [Add Sitemap Here If You Have One]
If you need one go to www.xml-sitemaps.com to create and obtain one.
Save and exit.
You may also add in a META Tag between
<head>
</head>
Just add this<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
Not sure if it'll help but it's worth a shotSunday, October 26, 2008 10:36 AM -
Thanks Yoogle!
Sammy, out of curriosity, why did you want to submit both? I noticed you have not canonicalized your site (redirected either the non www to www or visa versa). This can have a very large impact on your rankings.
Brett
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 3:58 PM