Tuesday, July 20, 2004

Shifting SEO Landscape Paid Inclusion out of MSN Ask Jeeves

Shifting SEO Landscape Paid Inclusion out of MSN:

On July 1, MSN announced that it had dropped Yahoo's Site Match Paid Inclusion listings from its index effective immediately. Meaning MSN listings are now a variation (their own secret parceling) of Yahoo's free index and ONLY the free index.

MSN is also still working on its own search technology, and a preview is now available at: http://sandbox.msn.com/. But don't fret if you're not in this new index. MSN search is not using this new technology yet, and it is in early and not late Beta stages.

"Ask Jeeves felt the heat of Paid Inclusion criticism and announced on June 24, that it was no longer offering the Teoma Paid Inclusion program. The engine will honor yearlong PI contracts, meaning all Paid Inclusion listings will be phased out of the engine by September 2005. "

Yahoo! Go to Yahoo and type in site: www.sitename.com -qxrxz

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