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MSN falls victim to Google PR update  0

Posted on October 21st, 2005. About Miscellaneous.

As reported by almost everyone out there writing about Google or/and SEO, Google has dropped MSN’s PR to 2. That’s exactly what you will see in your Googlebar when you type in “www.msn.com”. As Matt Cutts explained in this comment on Threadwatch,

We’re showing the main PR on msn.com, not www.msn.com. If you check http://msn.com, it’s PR8

There are different speculations across the SEO forums as to why this is happening. most tend to suspect Google’s dislike for 301/302 redirects, which might be the case with www.msn.com/msn.com.

An alternative to Google Personalized homepage?  0

Posted on October 21st, 2005. About Google, RSS, Black Hat, Yahoo.

I came across Netvibes and got curious to look at what it is and what it can be used for. First of all, it should be noted that this thing has a PR of 7, with 7,060 baclinks reported by Google. This alone makes it a desirable place to drop your links/rss feeds at - but judging by the number of pages indexed by Google, clearly the personalized pages cannot be indexed - which makes sense of course, otherwise I’d be concerned about ym privacy. As for the features Netvibes personalized page provides, they include RSS feeds (you can add your own ones), web search in Google, Yahoo, Icerocket and Wikipedia, weather casts, an option to check your Gmail inbox (or even several Gmail boxes if need be), Bookmarks and some other stuff. I haven’t noticed anything suggesting any information exchange between the users of this system, or any other public means of use of the information submitted by each individual user through his personalized page - which makes it a nice and convenient (and probably pretty secure and private) way to handle your personal stuff - but renders it totally useless for any SEO/black hat purposes…

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