How Live Search Penalties Work

Mar 20, 2009 at 8:47am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Live Search blog posted a comprehensive guide on how to determine if your site is penalized in Live Search and if so, what actions you can take to remedy the issue. I'll highlight some of the key points in this excellent blog post. Microsoft said, "most webmasters who get penalized know why it happened." First confirm your site is penalized by validating your site at Live Search Webmaster Tools and then clicking on the Summary tool and then the Site status section. Blocked "Yes" means you are penalized. Figure out what you did wrong by using the various tools to see your crawl issue [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Live Search, Microsoft: Live Search SEO, SEO: Spamming

Live Search Discusses Good & Bad Links

Dec 5, 2008 at 9:15am ET by Barry Schwartz

Jeremiah Andrick from the Microsoft Live Search team has written a detailed blog post named Getting the right kind of links. In this blog post, Jeremiah explains the issues Microsoft sees with link exchanges and then gives tips on how to get "the right kind of links." Those tips include to be the "subject matter expert" in your field, give stuff away as a "free service," work closely with "industry or professional associations" to get links from their pages, and leverage Social Media. If you are in a linking drought, check out that post and also read through our past link week column. [...]

Filed in: Link Building: General, Microsoft: Live Search SEO

Has Microsoft Live Search Detected Malware On Your Site?

Dec 4, 2008 at 12:59pm ET by Vanessa Fox

Recently, Microsoft Live Search added malware warnings to their search results. If a searcher clicks a result that Microsoft has detected contains malware, a popup warns then not to proceed to the site. As Matt noted yesterday, Google and Yahoo! also provide malware warnings to searchers. How can you find out if Microsoft has flagged your site for malware and how can you let them know you've fixed the problem? As part of this update, Microsoft Live Search also launched an update to their Webmaster Center that added alerts about malware. You can generate a report of all pages on your site t [...]

Filed in: Features: General, How To: SEO, Microsoft: Live Search, Microsoft: Live Search SEO, Search Features: Safety, Top News

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