Comments on: Microsoft’s Live.com Banning Sites for Link Exchanges

By: SEO Web Design

SEO Web Design — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:23:23 +0000

People abused the ranking system and search engines come up with protection scheme. And now people abuse the protection scheme to put others out of reach. End of the day, nothing has been done to solve the root of the problem.

By: Robert McCulloch

Robert McCulloch — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 02:19:47 +0000

Did this message come from directly from Microsoft or Live.com? Notice the ‘s’ at the end of the word ‘results’ in the sentance below.

‘…your site has been excluded from our index as results.’

Not to be rude or anything, but I question this authenticity of this report. It just does not sound like anything I have ever heard from Microsoft.
Maybe someone re-wrote the text of the messae from memory?
Any more information on this subject?

Thank you for posting this.

Robert McCulloch

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:31:44 +0000

here is link to the digtail point thread months ago.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=79415&highlight=msn+reinclusion+request

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:13:39 +0000

Cool. Now its super easy to ban one of your competitors sites on MSN. Just buy some domains, throw up unrelated content, and link to them. Way to go MSN!

LMAO

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:45:35 +0000

MSN have banned 2 of my sites for link exchnage. Both used ontopic partners.

I spoke to MSNdude. He first said it automated link exchange – I told him it was done manualy.

I asked him about a 301 redirect. He clearly did not know what that does. I wish i had kept his reply. MSN is a joke.

By: loren

loren — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:54:08 +0000

I disagree. Link farming and link spamming is not the poor man’s SEO. With a little time and hard work quality links can be built via exchanges with relevant sites, linkbaiting, comment participation, article contributions, guest blogging, public relations, and directory listings.

The poor man does not have to use spam driven linking techniques to obtain links to a site. Such a thought is exactly what those mass linking dealers want to spread, and it is not true.

Hopefully Live’com’s policy will expose the link spammers for who they are and reward those sites which perform quality link building.

By: Credit Cards

Credit Cards — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:23:14 +0000

I think that banning a site that does link exchanges is too harsh. It’s a poor man’s way of improving his rankings in his own little way.

Ultimately, I believe that only sites that target unrelated (to their site) keywords should be banned. Simply discounting these links in a site’s ranking like Google does it should be enough. Link farms are different altogether of course but not link exchanges. They don’t do enough harm to merit an exclusion I believe. :)

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:38:49 +0000

I have to give MSN credit for attempting to counter the spammers and their tactics.
Maybe search has a chance after all, and who thought Microsoft would be the first to do something about it?

By: JP Richards

JP Richards — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:15:20 +0000

“Perhaps a linking and SEO educational program from Live.com to publishers is in order”

Great idea.

Maybe the person wrote the email from Live.com, could initiate a blog like Matt Cutts. That way SEO/SEM people could continue to ethically operate.

Warmly,

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:20:19 +0000

Nah man, that’s not going to harm your msn listings.