Getting indexed in MSN checklist - MSN indexing criteria

So some of your have problems getting indexed in MSN that is why you are here, Here is a simple checklist how to get good indexing by MSN live bot, MSN's search engine crawler. Few posts back we had a posting about MSN live bot hitting us hard which is actually good news for us so how did we do it here is a small checklist you can do to get the same love from MSN search engine crawler.



1. As always we say good backlinks are similar to guaranteed paid inclusion into any search engines. There is no exception for MSN search engine get good links get listed in leading directories like Dmoz, yahoo directory etc your site is sure to indexed.

2. Submit your URL through webmaster.live.com a platform like google webmasters where you can validate your site and submit your URL,

3. Create a good html sitemap and link it from your homepage most of the search engines including MSN live bot like to crawl a site not too deep unless you have very good site. SO make sure most of your pages are accessible from the top level important pages like the Homepage.



4. Get listed in Dmoz like google MSN too loves Dmoz a listing in dmoz will guarantee a listing in MSN search.

5. Sometimes MSN live bot have problem reading your robots.txt, make sure you don't mess too much with your robots.txt file it could cause problem for MSN live bot in crawling your site.

6. Check for canonical issues. MSN live bot still has some problem with canonical issues. Make sure you just use one version of the site either www or non-www. You can redirect either one to the other one.

7. MSN has problem with affiliate links so if you are part of an affiliate or offer affiliate services make sure your links coming in our going out have any problem with MSN live bot crawler.

8. Also if you made major changes to your URLs like changing shopping cart then you need to wait since it takes time for MSN bot to pick up new URLs. if you don't see good crawler activity try submitting a sitemap.

9. Make sure your site is not banned or penalized from MSN search. A penalty will definitely affect your website crawling by MSN search crawler.

Search Engine Genie Blog Team.