MSN does seems a bit better for checking those backlinks. MSN shows for one of my sites at 45,800 backlinks which is more realistic number than Google or Yahoo. I think that's about half of what I have. The best out of the big three.

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The only problem I'm really seeing is that the pages indexed are from the right domains, but the wrong selection of pages...(index instead of specific product when a product query is run). Because of this I'm seeing increasingly stronger traffic from MSN, but conversions have been slight -- this will change as the algorithm improves, but for now it is an issue...don't count on all those nice positions; I give them 2-3 weeks before they are completely different.

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Thanks for the insight Cygnus, and I also agree with you.

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I think MSN now updates backlinks everyday.

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Really? Kinda find that hard to believe, ya know? You been seeing daily changes? I will have to keep my eye on that.

I do know this - I got one really, really happy client - he's thrilled to see his page at the top of the SERP's for both keywords - I told him not to hold his breath - I have no idea how long it will last.

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Yes, it is updating daily (or at least the count is).

Strangely, it is going up AND down -- versus incrementally up, as one might assume.

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Dang - good eye, repman.

Let me be the dumb one here - what command works in MSN for links? I am trying link: and linkdomain: & I get nothing...Never really studied MSN until now...

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In the beta you can use
link:www.domain.com

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When it was not live, for two kewords my site was on 2nd position, still for some other kewords it is. It looks like for me its still tough enough, MSN (beta)

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MSN is really at quick at indexing new sites and updating links. A 4 day old site is indexed. Links added 1.5 days ago on the new site are indexed.

I have another fairly new site that is ranking #1 in MSN for a fairly competitive term. The term is the same as the domain. A very large proportion of the links were using this keyword.

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