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Msn
Receives its search results from a variety of sources. The "Featured
Sites" section results are provided by MSN's
sponsors. The results in the "Web Directory Topics"
and "Web Directory Sites" sections come from Looksmart,
MSN's
primary provider. To get a top ranking you need to participate
in the LookSmart
pay-per-click program, so submission occurs at Looksmart.
In some cases LookSmart
does not have sufficient results, so Inktomi
"Web Pages" results follow and thus your "free"
indexed entries may rank well. At the top of the "Web Directory
Sites" section, you can click on a link to view the 10 most
popular sites provided by Direct Hit. The "Web Pages"
section is provided by Inktomi. Although you can submit directly
to MSN,
you would be better off to directly submit to Looksmart and Inktomi.
The top search results are generally in Looksmart sequence. Since
Looksmart
is a PPC (pay-per-click) directory, if your account balance falls
to $0 your ranking in this section of MSN
will vanish. This means that the rankings in MSN
are not stable on a day-to-day basis and that you should consider
paying into the Looksmart
program.
The thing to remember is that you must have suitable URL content
and be engineered to beat your competition within Fast before
you register your pages. Just registering with Fast does not assure
a suitable ranking.
MSN Search Worldwide sites:
To search from one of MSN Search's international sites, select
one of the links below.
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