MSN sitemap/optimization help, anyone ?

[GiorgosK]

I have a online gaming website which has about 2400 pages and I have submitted a sitemap to google and yahoo .... I think MSN does not have a place to submit your sitemap, or does it ?

Well google has indexed all the pages, but Yahoo and MSN are at about the 20% of them ... is there a way to make MSN see the pages faster ? (the site is 2 months old).

Any ideas on optimizing the pages for MSN ? what does MSN look for in a site ?

Thanks in advance

[tubeyak]

I don't think you can submit a sitemap to MSN. Some thread in another forum mentioned that doing the following can help for MSN optimization:

To do this, simply add the following line to your robots.txt file:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

[GiorgosK]

I have done this already .... I was hoping for any other tricks that would get my pages indexed faster in MSN ...

[zerk]

Wait, you just submitted the same .xml site map from google for MSN? Honestly, I have only ever worried about google, never yahoo or MSn. Most of my searches are from there, none really from MSn. Lol, maybe I should put some more effort into it then. Are there tools out there like they have for google?

[tubeyak]

I think catering to other engines like MSN is a waste of time and effort. Most traffic it seems to most sites comes from google and google only.

[GiorgosK]

@Zerk similar to the google webmasters tools http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

Yahoo has
Yahoo! Site Explorer ~

@Tubeyak
Some niches have better conversion rates from traffic of MSN and yahoo even though they send less traffic

In my case I have only 20% of my pages indexed by MSN and get from it 20% of what google sends me, and that traffic is really more valuable ...

I suspect if I had ALL my pages indexed from MSN I would get the same amount of traffic as google ...

[zerk]

Yeah, yahoo im not so worried about. it is MSn. I literally have one referral from them in the last 4 days... google I get over 150 a day.

So, smart thing to for me to is find some information on MSN and try to get my website indexed in there.