SEO/SEM News

I guess MSN/Live does not have the reputation Google has when it comes to search result relevancy, but it does have a better reputation when it comes to getting into the SERPs early. I remember in an old Microsoft press release where they did say that MSNbot will attempt to crawl the Internet and reach as far as it can every other day. As opposed to Google where they say they crawl every 30 days.

Google is known to index the slowest, but if you pay attention to your webstats, you may see Googlebot visit your website several times a day. I guess with the power of their algorithm to make results more relevant, it requires much more processing time as it considers in many factors, thus taking a longer time to be displayed in the SERPs.

For the contest SEO Ituloy AngSulong which has been announced just 2 days ago, on the very first day. MSN was showing results where the only entry was a site by Isulong SEOph 2nd place winner Whin Clores. Now on the 3rd day, MSN is now displaying 268 results.

Entries currently on the first page are:

• Benj Arriola’s isulongseoph.com.ph
• Ruel Bermudez’ blog.ruelbermudez.com
• An article on SEODance talking about ituloyangsulong.com
• Linux Guru Migs Paraz who has been quiet in the SEO Philippines group and it’s nice to see him talking again. migs.paraz.com
• Fernando Martirez’ box.com.ph.
• And the SEO Philippines post about the Ituloy AngSulong contest.

Although it is still to early to say that these results are the permanent results already and February is a very very long journey still. As much as MSN/Live is known to index faster, it is also faster to influence the search engine to change results so expect even more Ituloy AngSulong competitors to start moving up the SERPs.

Yahoo, although displaying 2 results already for Ituloy AngSulong, one of them does not seem to be an Ituloy AngSulong entry and is just some RSS content reader pulling some RSS feed from one of the contestants.

Again, it is still to early for any competitor to be celebrate, nor be to lose hope. And this SEO Contest has a long way to go.

And since SEO contest are very good SEO lesson teachers, there was almost a lesson everyday learned from the first contest Isulong SEOph.

And lessons learned now in day 3 of Ituloy AngSulong is, something many SEO people already know. MSN indexes and displays sites in the SERPs the fastest. Next is Yahoo, and last is Google. But apart from these already known facts, what other observations can be seen?

• Have you notices the search results for Ituloy AngSulong on MSN are mostly not the homepages? For IsulongSEOph.com.ph, it is the BuildingDreams Wordpress theme and for Migs Paraz’ site are his popular post about Paypal and Smart Wifi.
• Why is the RSS feed of the Japanese site given so much importance that it was in the SERPs on the very 2nd day?

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