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MSN’s Local Listings Center = Down
I’d really like to suggest to clients that they add their business to MSN’s Local Business Listings Center, but it’s down for some reason. And it’s not coming back in the immediate future. “Please try again after Labour Day.” Say what? And what’s with the UK spelling? Anyone know what’s going on? Big upgrades, perhaps? […]
Adding A Business to MSN/Live Local Search
MSN’s Local Search property, Live Search Maps, used to rely on Localeze for all its business listings. If you wanted to add or edit a listing in MSN Local, that’s where you went to take care of it. That’s since been replaced by MSN’s own Local Business Listings Center, which operates quite similarly to Google’s […]
MSN Dips Its Toes Into Universal Search
I’ll admit to not using MSN Search … err, “Live Search” … very often, so I was surprised to see some new content appearing in the SERPs over the past few days. By all accounts, it looks like a very early version of what has now become “Universal Search” (Google’s term) or “Blended Search” (everyone […]
Friday Night Link-o-rama
I’ll be watching you / Every link you take… MSN Search … err, Live Search… doesn’t really have a lot going for it. Nobody uses it. No one optimizes for it. And so it stinks that they’ve taken away the one thing it did better than anyone else: advanced link query operators. Sheesh. Meanwhile, here […]
Deep Thoughts on MSN
(The title is somewhat tongue-in-cheek…) Ever since Microsoft started talking years ago about having its own search engine, people have been talking about how an MSFT search engine would hurt Google and Yahoo because of all those “default” users that are MSN customers and/or Internet Explorer users. It’s been 2+ years since MSN launched its […]
Sitemaps not just for Google anymore…
While I haven’t personally had much reason to use the Google Sitemaps tool/service, I’m betting a lot of you do and so this becomes an important piece of news: The sitemaps protocol will soon be supported by Yahoo! and MSN, too. Coverage: Google Webmaster Central blog MSN Live Search blog Yahoo! Search blog Yeah, having […]
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