Kick your competitors out of MSN Live search

November 5th, 2006 by Stefan Juhl

Apparently MSN’s Live search has some issues in regards to duplicate content, which makes it possible for you to kick you competitors out of Live’s SERP’s, and vice versa. This is in an issue much like the one with Google’s indexing of invalid subdomains that I posted about.

It was l3vi / BoogyBonBon who discovered it and he posted the MSN Live search issue here. The post explains how you can have websites removed from the MSN Live SERP’s by simply adding bogus parameters to the URL’s and then do some link dumping for the altered URL’s. (Nice find, l3vi!)

It seems that all the search engines have some major issues in regards to their ways of handling duplicate content. Indeed it’s pretty tough to determine the best “version” of the content when it’s duplicate, but the search engines surely doesn’t handle this very well yet.

Hopefully for many, MSN will fix this soon. Under all circumstances you should check out the fix l3vi posted and consider if you could apply a fix to your sites. For the black hat’s, hurry up and abuse it now when you can.

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2 Responses to “Kick your competitors out of MSN Live search”

  1. Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 9:36 pm

    Fun stuff eh? Perhaps I should put up a site and charge people to knock others out of the serps? :)

    G-Man

  2. Stefan Juhl Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 11:21 pm

    Fun stuff, indeed! I thought of just making sites based on scraped MSN Live SERP’s for the corresponding keywords as usual. But then add bogus parameters to the URL’s to get the competing pages kicked out of the SERP’s… ;-)

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