Others claim they're not seeing changes. I think site quality and backlink quality has to do with this and I hardly believe that this fix is in just for little ol'me!

This is a time of joy for all SEOs…

MSN (aka Live Search) can finally see my 301 redirects and has indexed the new pages. Those who have been readers here for a few months may have noticed on a certain day my entire URL structure changed radically. I 301-ed the old pages to the new URL addresses and the entire site was live and kicking in Google in less then 1 week.

At that very moment I lost touch with Live Search (MSN). They no longer indexed the new pages and never followed my redirects while the old pages were just garbage in the index. On the 25th of January 2008 I noticed my pages appeared in the MSN index with the new URLs. They have cache ranging from 25th on and this is a great moment which I never thought will come.

I've bashed the MSN search team badly in the past but now I raise my blackhat to them and congratulate them for comprehending the most basic of HTTP protocol : 301 permanent redirects.

Cheers Microsoft Coders and if you also begin to index new sites you will rule the world!

Want Evidence MSNbot wised up?

Take a look here and check out the images below:

Old URL structure (as in link above) has changed to new URL structure (as in link below). Both links work but 1st is 301ed to second. Try it by clicking on link above and link below links. Some old URLs with missing cache are still in index but I guess they'll soon fade away as most of them have already vanished. Both snapshots have been taken today!

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#1 Gab from Canada web

Posted on Wednesday, 30 January, 2008

Good news, it looks like. Wonder what a certain someone will do if they hire him to intern there this summer. You know who I mean, I'm sure.

#2 SlightlyShadySEO from United States web

Posted on Wednesday, 30 January, 2008

Joy of Joys! Now you can get all that LIVSOP referrer spam from them I get!
..and maybe a hit or two...
hehe

#3 5ubliminal web

Posted on Wednesday, 30 January, 2008

@Shady: Yeah! The Ref-spam is back in. But it has never left as a part of my site never changed URL.
Hits??? Dont' think so :)

@Gab: It would be nice and was a dream of mine a while (7 years) ago but … I work for no man (I collaborate, consult and advice) … and I hate birocracy!

#4 jt from United States

Posted on Wednesday, 30 January, 2008

Hey thanks for the update! Well wonders never cease with those guys! Well better late than never I always say.
Great find!

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