Will Link Exchanges Get You Banned From MSN?
It certainly appears that way, at least according to a post that popped up on Barry Schwartz’s SERoundtable this morning. The post references an email appearing in the SearchEngineWatch forums that says:
Your site is acquiring links through posting to or exchanging links with sites unrelated to your site content. Techniques which attempt to acquire unrelated spam links in order to increase ranking are considered spam and your site has been excluded from our index as results. Please contact us once you’ve removed these links and we will reevaluate.
Live Search
Making the offending sites one of the first documented cases of a site being suspended from a search index because of a link exchange (to my knowledge). Could Live.com’s actions be seen as a little harsh? Isn’t there a way to simply ignore undesirable links? And if they are kicking sites because of irrelevant link exchanges, shouldn’t they address their duplicate content issue?
Chris Richardson
Staff Writer | WebProNews Blog
I think that’s what happened to my site http://www.egsmartsys.com. Anyways MSN was less than 2% of my total traffic.