Has MSN search found your site?

MSN search is Microsoft's answer to Google and is third largest search engine behind Google and Yahoo. MSN search receives a lot of traffic and if it doesn't know about your website it can't send people to it who are looking for you.

To find out if MSN search knows about your site go to www.msn.com and search for the following...

Site:www.yourwebsite.co.uk

Replace www.yourwebsite.co.uk with the address of your website, remembering to keep the : with no spaces otherwise it won't work correctly. This will show you all the pages from your website MSN search knows about.

Get in to MSN search

If MSN hasn't found your website it may be that your site is very new, if it is more then a couple of months old you need to get another web page that has been found by MSN search to link to your website. To do this search in MSN for something related to your site. Then email one of the websites that come up in the results kindly asking them to link to your website. MSN will find this link to your site and include. A month after the link has been added go back to MSN and do the site:www.yourwebsite.com search again, it should now be included.

Getting to the top of MSN

Just because MSN search knows about your site doesn't mean it will place it at the top of its results. Web site owners work very hard to be listed at the top of search results.

Learn how to get to the top of search engines