The MSN Search Engine Shows Results First

27 May 2006 at 14:07 by Eric Morgan

The MSN search engine will usually pick up changes on your website before Google or Yahoo; see how this can help you in your SEO process.

In general MSN will always show results for edit to your webpage for SEO purposes first. This does not mean that MSN actually indexes your site before Yahoo or Google, in my research it seems to be pretty random as far as when a SE will index your site. However MSN will generally show changes in your websites performance for search engine results before Yahoo & Google. So how can this help you?

Because MSN usually will basically let you know if your changes to your website are working well or not before Google or Yahoo it is a good practice to always check MSN a week or two after you make changes to your website. If the results are positive in general the results should be positive for other search engines as well; although usually not as dramatic in my case. If you make changes to your website and the changes are not favorable in MSN it is usually safe to assume the changes will not help in Yahoo and Google and you should not waste a month or two waiting to find out; go back and change your wesite back to how it was.

So by using MSN as a predictor of how Google and Yahoo will view your search engine optimization processes you can save valuable waiting time by knowing how well your SEO efforts are paying off without waiting for months.

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