MSN – Get your site indexed

Many search engine optimisers don’t consider MSN when contemplating their search engine promotion, usually only looking at optimising their sites for Google. But MSN is one of the top three search engines alongside Google and Yahoo!. Another reason not to ignore MSN is that it updates faster than Google of Yahoo!, allowing you to use MSN to test your results. Before looking at getting your site indexed, you need to make sure it is well optimised. For tips on optimisation, have a look at our tutorial. You can also visit Microsoft’s Search Engine Optimization Tips. Firstly you need to check is MSN has already indexed you site. You can do this by typing “site:domain.com” into MSN’s search bar. If you receive no results then your site has not been indexed by MSN. There is and easy way to get MSN to crawl your site. When you search MSN to check if you site is indexed (as above “site:domain.com”), if your site isn’t indexed MSN will show the following message: “If you cannot find a page that you know exists, send the address to us.” If you click on that link, it will take you to: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=SUNO. Here you can submit your site directly to the MSN spider. Another way to be indexed is to go directly to http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm. Once you have submitted your site via either of these two methods, you do not need to resubmit. If you have any questions or queries about this article, please leave a comment here or you can post in our search engine forum.