Banned / lost your website in MSN Live search ?

Here is the solution to get reindexed and reincluded into MSN Live search. Register and login to webmaster.live.com , validate your website. Contact them and explain the situation what happened to your site and how it got penalized/ banned / removed from their index. Search quality team of MSN live is very responsive they take every message they receive through their webmaster channel seriously.
To get a prompt response describe as much as possible about your website more you explain better they understand about your website.

MSN search and win – Is it true.

When i searched for a keyword and as MSN search and win page said the result said i won some prize

when I clicked on that we got the following URL: http://www.msnsearchandwin.com/_v6/9326-059-713/g=92@13/98775785

it said sorry search again to win, so what was the problem,

Got the above page

MSN search support much higher quality than Google – Sites gets individual attention,

MSN search team is very prompt in responding to client mails, Recently a client came to us with a site which was penalized by MSN search engine, they want us to get their site reincluded into MSN search and get the site indexed, We checked for problems and tried contacting MSN search, they gave a detailed and prompt reply,

MSN search support team rocks,

Hope MSN search becomes the search engine of the future, They are one of the search engines which can compete with google directly,

From: MSN Customer Support <*******************> Date: ******************8
Subject: RE: ************** – MSN Search: Search:Problems:finding a website
To: *****************

Hello *****************,

Thank you for writing to MSN Search Technical Support.

I am ****** and I understand that your website is not indexed in the MSN Search engine. I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you.

While MSNBot is able to crawl many of the billions of web pages on the Internet, it can crawl them all. For example, if your site’s link structure does not have links to each page on your site, MSNBot may not be able to find all of the pages of your site. To determine whether we have encountered links to a particular page or domain, you can use the “link:” or “linkdomain:” search operator. Also, higher quality pages are more likely to be crawled than lower quality pages. For more information about search operators please visit http://search. msn.com/docs/help.aspx?t=SEARCH_REF_AdvSrchOperators.htm

Additionally, not every page that is crawled is indexed. For a site to be indexed, it must meet specific standards for content, design, and technical implementation. To help ensure that your site is indexed, confirm that it adheres to our design guidelines located at http://search. msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_GuidelinesforOptimizingSite.htm

To see which pages we have indexed from a site you can use the “site:” search operator. For more information about site indexing please visit http://search. msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_GettingSiteIndexed.htm

Generally, if you follow these guidelines and MSN has encountered links to your site, you do not need to submit your URL for MSNBot to reach your site. However, if your site still does not appear in our index (using the “site:” search operator) you may want to submit your site’s URL to us at http://search. msn.com/docs/submit.aspx.

Please note that submitting your site does not guarantee that your site will be indexed, it simply help us locate your site so that MSNBot can try to crawl it.

You are valuable at MSN and we look forward to providing you with consistent and effective service. If you have other inquiries, please do not hesitate to write back.

Sincerely,

**************
MSN Search Technical Support

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Subject: MSN Search:Search:Problems:finding a website

Service:
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What type of problem do you have?
Search
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To ensure a quick resolution, provide as many details as possible, including the date and time the problem occurred, a description of what you were trying to do, the detailed steps you took that led up to the problem, and details on any error messages that you received.
I didn’t find my site indexed in msn and whenever i look into site:*******************i never see my site get crawled. so, i kindly request you to reinclude my site. site url is : ****************88

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Evidence reveals MSN using editors to maintain quality in its search results,

Some of our referral logs show visits from this URLhttp://64.4.8.28/hrsv3/Judging.aspx , at first look it seems like a spam site but it is not the case,

We see a login screen when we visit that URL mshrs.search.msn-int.com/hrsv3/Login.aspx it looks like human review area for MSN search results,

Google has been doing human review using eval.google.com for a longtime,

What googleguy said about eval.google.com

“walkman, your comment illustrates a misconception that I’ve seen in a couple places. The system that was up at eval.google.com was a console to evaluate quality passively, not to tweak our results actively. But when Henk van Ess submitted his own blog to Slashdot, he asserted “Real people, from all over the world, are paid to finetune the index of Google,” and that made it sound like people were reaching in via this console to tweak results directly, which just isn’t true at all.
I have serious reservations about Henk van Ess taking information from one of his own students (who presumably signed a non-disclosure agreement when the student agreed to help rate the quality of our results) and posting that information online. I also believe these web pages said things like “Google Proprietary and Confidential,” but it appears that the screenshots have been cropped to exclude that information. Those are the two things that really made me sad, not the “breaking news” the Google evaluates its own results quality. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Google evaluates the quality of its results in lots of ways–the fact is that every major search engine evaluates its relevance in many ways. “

I said
But when Henk van Ess submitted his own blog to Slashdot, he asserted “Real people, from all over the world, are paid to finetune the index of Google,” and that made it sound like people were reaching in via this console to tweak results directly, which just isn’t true at all. and you replied
Google Guy, do I read between the lines that you think my postings are irrelevant and misleading? That would be a shame.
I don’t believe they’re irrelevant, but yes: I do believe that the assertions you’ve made are misleading. In my original post, I was replying to walkman, who asked “ok, so how do you know you’ve been manually hit by this?” which implies that walkman thought that eval.google.com was responsible for sites being hit. Likewise, I have a ton of respect for Tara Calashain at ResearchBuzz. But her post about your site says “Basically what Henk seems to have found is a part of Google that allows humans to tweak search results to ostensibly get rid of spam and let the most contextually-relevant search results rise to the top.” Again, Tara wonders whether your posts said that results were being directly tweaked. Then there are assertions from your site like “The Google testers are paid $10 – $20 for each hour they filter the results of Google.” “Filter” again makes it sound like an active process. And your self-submission to Slashdot (“Real people, from all over the world, are paid to finetune the index of Google”), which also gives the impression that people used eval.google.com to change our search results.
So yes, I looked at the wording from when you submitted your own site to Slashdot, plus the use of active verbs such as “filter” on your own site, plus the comments of smart people such as Tara and walkman and how they interpreted what you wrote, and in my opinion your posts have been misleading. Again, this was not a console in which people could directly fine-tune, tweak, filter, or otherwise modify our search results. eval.google.com was for “eval,” i.e. passive evaluation.
Your follow-up question was “Why pay them for something if it has no effect om the index? Must be charity then.” Why are you surprised that we would pay people to rate search results? The job posting has been public, after all. We do provide ways for people to volunteer to help Google (e.g. see our translation console at https://services.google.com/tc/Welcome.html ), but to rate search results consistently and well takes time and training. I think it’s perfectly normal to pay people for their time.
When you quoted me on your site, you said “Google Guy: I’ve serious reservations about Henk van Ess” and in your post you said “Google’s spokesmen Google Guy, who I love to read, has serious reservations about me.” Just to be clear, that’s not accurate: I don’t have reservations about you personally, Henk. I think I stated clearly that I have serious reservations about two of your actions. I mentioned those two specific things in my first post, and I’ll reiterate them: you took information from one of your students, and you posted information that (in my opinion) was clearly proprietary/confidential. Regarding the first, I believe you wrote in a comment on your own site that this information came from a student of yours? Regarding the second, I’m quite surprised that you assert “I’m not aware of restrictions.” Besides the copyright symbol that you mentioned earlier, the very first picture you posted has a link “An NDA Reminder…” on the left in the Important Announcements section, where NDA stands for non-disclosure agreement. Are you honestly saying that if you had realized there were restrictions, you wouldn’t have done five blog posts (so far), posted screenshots, posted employee’s real names on the web without consulting them, and posted two training documents? In that case, I’ll ask politely. Henk, this information was for ratings training. It’s copyrighted, and I’m sure that the evaluation group considers it proprietary/confidential. I’d appreciate it if you would stop posting these documents.
By the way, I apologize in advance if this post comes across as strident. I hate he-said-she-said stuff, and normally I try not to post when I’m at ruffled at all. But I do think that things like posting an innocent employee’s name from internal training documents is rude and unnecessary. Henk, feel free to include this entry on your blog, but if you do, I’d appreciate if you’d quote the entire post.

then we have yahoo’s human review of search results, we can see referrals from corp.yahoo domain

now we have MSN human review of search, I think its mostly for quality control purpose? anyway good to see they are hand reviewing search, their results are spammed a lot by search engine spammers,

askjeeves releases cache dates – when will MSN and Yahoo add cache dates to their cache,

Search Engine Watch blog reports ask jeeves adding cache dates to sites cache in their results, This is a bold improvement, Yahoo and MSN still didnt bring this facility, Hope they will follow soon,

Google is the first search engine to introduce option,

Some sites were reporting MSN was showing weird search behavior for current seo contest,

Lots of blogs are monitoring the ongoing SEO contest, Some blogs report MSN is showing weird behavior for the search http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=V7ndotcom+elursrebmem&FORM=QBRE ,

First many thought MSN is filtering out results for this keywords, Now it revealed its not the case, MSN search looks brilliant than what we think of, It seems msn search first try to understand the meaning of the words, Later if it cant find the words in dictionary, it adds the words to adult search keywords,

Now the search V7ndotcom elursrebmem reveals 41,000 results but we have the following note below the search bar,

Web ResultsPage 1 of 41,216 results containing V7ndotcom elursrebmem (0.06 seconds) (with SafeSearch: Moderate)

You can see the mention safesearch moderate, Usually this gets displayed it adult related keywords are searched,

So is MSN so concerned about po*n in its results, if its true MSN looks great,

Pages falling out of MSN search for No reason, – webmasterworld members report fall of pages in MSN results

webmasterworld.com members report fall of pages from MSN’s index, some of them notice their homepages dropping, some notice that their pages drop by a trend,

Most notice a huge flux with MSN results after christmas, Is MSN onto something, lets wait and see,

Rich of webmasterworld says,

“Pages are falling off for no reason. On using the site command it returns 650 pages which is less than 1% of the sites content.
I noticed that some pages return the page title with the following in the description field rather than the meta description on the page:-
“To get the most out of the XXXX site please either enable Javascript or download a newer version of your favourite browser – Mircosoft Explorer Mozilla Firefox Alternatively please follow “
On watching the recent video clip of the two msn guys talking about the search engine learning from itself i do wonder if the have a major problem with this search facility.
I would say they are trying to be smart by reading a sites pages in a different browser and it clearly doesn’t work – rather than trying to be cleaver they should try and get the basic search right first – such as deep indexing of websites for a start
In this example msn clearly does not cash all of the sites pages despite the site being an established site and authority with thousands of backlinks nor does the bot fully index the site when it visits.
On the face of it i would say that the site has triggered some sort of filter and that’s why its a)not deep spidering the site and b) not indexing the pages and c) removing pages it already has in its index – whats causing this i am clueless of!
Currently based on other sites we work on i would say that if you knock together a thin site low on content, with keyword domain name you will rank top for that keyword very easily. In one example a site with one page but loads of links to it ranks high in an extremely sought after sector.
All in all, its still early days for the search but i think its got serious problems and issues that need fixing”

More here, webmasterworld.com/forum97/716.htm

MSN reverse IP tool – MSN offers a new tool to check sites hosted on same IPs,

MSN has brought a great tool, This tool is currently given by whois.sc as a paid tool, MSN allows us to check sites hosted on same IP.

Lots of servers today hosts sites on shared IPs we have heard of sites sharing their IP with 500 other sites, Now MSN tool allows us to check that, Its listed here,

http://search.msn.com/docs/help.aspx?t=SEARCH_REF_AdvSrchOperators.htm#op_ip

MSN offers instructions for site owners on getting their site indexed and ranked by MSN,

MSN is the third best search engine on the web, they have a strong customer base who are regular visitors of MSN, Since MSN is the third best search engine it is important to get ranked in their search engine, For ranking sites MSN provides quality guidelines, the guidelines provide an insight what might work for MSN search engine,

Content guidelines for your website from MSN

“The best way to attract people to your site, and keep them coming back, is to design your pages with valuable content that your target audience is interested in.
In the visible page text, include words users might choose as search query terms to find the information on your site.
Limit all pages to a reasonable size. We recommend one topic per page. An HTML page with no pictures should be under 150 KB.
Make sure that each page is accessible by at least one static text link.
Keep the text that you want indexed outside of images. For example, if you want your company name or address to be indexed, make sure it is displayed on your page outside of a company logo.
Add a site map. This enables MSNBot to find all of your pages easily. Links embedded in menus, list boxes, and similar elements are not accessible to web crawlers unless they appear in your site map.

MSN Search service live now – Feb 1st msn comes out of beta search officially

MSN search which has been in beta testing for a while is live now in the main MSN homepage, www.msn.com

Bill gates has released a letter on this, it states,

Greetings,

I would like to introduce you to the new MSN Search service and MSN.com home page.

Based on your feedback, we have designed the new MSN.com home page to be faster, simpler, and more organized. We’ve also made MSN Search more precise and powerful, so you can quickly find the information you’re looking for.

Our mission at Microsoft is to use the power of software to solve our customers’ toughest problems. Searching the Internet today is a challenge, and it is estimated that nearly half of customers’ complex questions go unanswered. That’s why we’re proud of our new MSN Search service, a simple and powerful tool that helps you find the answers you want from sources as diverse as Web pages, images, news headlines, music downloads, and even files on your PC.

Input from millions of our customers – including me – was crucial to our efforts to make MSN Search the best it can be. If you have not already tried it, I encourage you to visit www.msn.com and type in your question. We’d love to hear what you think, and I promise that we will continue to improve MSN based on your feedback.

Sincerely,

Bill Gates

Source: specials.msn.com/letter/billgates.html