I have a client who uses Yahoo's Trusted Feed program. It's worked very well for them, but when MSN removed all trusted feed URLs from their engine, it took out most of the pages of their site.
It's been months since MSN stopped using Trusted Feed, and referrals from MSN have been steadily dropping.
I can't help wondering if we remove the site from Trusted Feed altogether if that would actually help. I figure Yahoo would pick up the pages for free, and then so would MSN.
Is it possible that because the pages are all in the trusted feed database and not the main database that MSN will simply not pick them up?
Has anyone else faced this and if so, what have you done?
Jill
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Trusted Feed And Losing Msn Listings
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Jill
, Nov 03 2004 09:19 AM
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Posted 03 November 2004 - 10:08 AM
To check if dropping the feed will work, remove a few pages from the feed and see if they show up in MSN after about 2-3 weeks. If they do - then proceed to remove some more 
I've sometimes had this work, but a lot depends on the crawlable nature of the pages.
I've sometimes had this work, but a lot depends on the crawlable nature of the pages.
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Posted 03 November 2004 - 11:06 AM
Thanks, Barry. The site is fairly crawlable. Google has nearly 7000 pages indexed. MSN is showing under 400 at the moment.
I'll recommend we do some tests like that and see what happens.
I'll recommend we do some tests like that and see what happens.
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Posted 03 November 2004 - 06:31 PM
Quick question: will different URLs for trusted Feed pages help? E.g. instead of www.TFsite.com/page.php?page=123, using www.TFsite.com/page.php?page=132&res=OSE help?? I remember you saying something to that effect a while ago Barruy, about the old Inktomi PFI, but I can't seem to track it down.
I have been trying to figure this one out as well, as a few sites are in the same boat. Another nuance I have seen but can not confirm (incomplete data) is that if one uses geotargetting, the URLs do not drop out of the YST index altogether. In such a case, the same URL will show up in MSN (NineMSN in my case) as well as in Yahoo, only nthe Yahoo results will be Site match Xchange.
Perhaps try just targetting the US and see what happens. Worth a try anyway.
I have been trying to figure this one out as well, as a few sites are in the same boat. Another nuance I have seen but can not confirm (incomplete data) is that if one uses geotargetting, the URLs do not drop out of the YST index altogether. In such a case, the same URL will show up in MSN (NineMSN in my case) as well as in Yahoo, only nthe Yahoo results will be Site match Xchange.
Perhaps try just targetting the US and see what happens. Worth a try anyway.
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Posted 29 November 2004 - 06:31 AM
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Another nuance I have seen but can not confirm (incomplete data) is that if one uses geotargetting, the URLs do not drop out of the YST index altogether
see post on this thread, that answers this:
http://www.highranki...showtopic=10332
Cheers
David
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