This seems odd to me. I am using a really nice tool to check link popularity:

http://tools.marketleap.com/publinkpop/

Which show that I am doing much better with Yahoo! and Google than I am with MSN and HotBot. Looking at other sites, this is the opposite of what is typical.

Any ideas why? Are there differences in how they index that I should be accounting for?

FB

It's probably a fairly new site so they may not have picked up your links yet. SEO is something that takes a lot of skill (which needs to be updated continuously) and a lot of patience.

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Do not worry about that - MSN and Hotbot all have much lower link counts for all my sites.

MSN is shifting back and forth to Beta, referring more and more browsers,
might be a reason.

http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/arc.../08/349199.aspx

Generally - these SE may be sllower in act, Try to check if the sites that link to you are indexed.

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That makes sense. Is there anything specific we should be doing for the new MSN search technology?

Mainly the "regulars" - proper on-site optimization (IMHO got more importance on MSN than G) + focused link building with pages that already show on serps.

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Here's alink to the MSN beta Guidelines page

http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/sit...imizingSite.htm

TechEvangelist,
Thanks. This was helpful and interesting. I was very low on MSN, becuase they were indexing our site with beta.search.nsm , and we are now popping very well there. We have more inbound links there than any other engine. Good experiment.

Does HotBot matter? I am guessing they were based on Inktomi, who is now Yahoo. Any tips for HotBot? Do they matter?

FB

Very little traffic comes from HotBot but they have been coming up in some of Google's SERPs quite recently.