Apr 10, 2007
If anyone was wondering why your backlink scraper tools haven't been performing properly, the reason could lie in MSN discontinuing the advanced queries on the search engine.This announcement comes a couple of weeks ago - 28th March 2007. I had noticed these queries weren't working, but had just thought it was something broken and it would be back soon.
Looking at MSN's helpful error message, who could blame me?
MSN say they will have it back online soon - who knows what this actually means. Maybe it's coming back with a CAPTCHA, maybe it's coming back "revamped" with less features than a cheap plastic watch.
Maybe it will come back better than ever (I really hope so, but I'm not banking on this).
Better than Google
What is unfortunate about this is that this was one of few tools where MSN is clearly better than Google. Google's backlink tool has been flawed for years, showing only a handful of the actual backlinks, while MSN's has always done a fairly decent job. Of course, only SEOs and webmasters use this tool, and this demographic probably represents the heaviest users least likely to click on a paid advertisement. Who can blame them, really.
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Comments
Sprinkles - Dec 14, 2007
MSN pulled their new seo solution out of beta recently, have you tried it yet? What do you think about it. I read your post and then followed the web to seeing they released their new web masters tool. Was wondering what you thought?
canta - Jan 19, 2008
Why do not I have backlink on MSN. I have 120 backlink on Yahoo and google. But I don't have on MSN.
luckybano - Feb 23, 2008
Thanks for your post SEO is like a game
Khushboo - Jun 20, 2008
I have back links-13 in Google,1017 in yahoo,556 in altavista,536 in alltheweb but i have none backlink in MSN what does it mean?
have any suggestion or idea about that?
Outsource Development - Jun 20, 2008
MSn Back links not generaly shown in any site why it does? when any specific search for check backlink MSN then..
Salil Pillai - Jul 24, 2008
@Khushboo
You dont have back links in MSN bcoz MSN have stopped the backlink checking provision in their search engine. If it was there it would have shown more number of backlinks than other search engines.
b2b portal - Jul 26, 2008
i always liked MSN bcoz it showed more backlinks towards my site than Google or Yahoo.
NiTiN - Sep 18, 2008
hi friends,
please any one say how can i find many backlinks in any search engine.
Because i want to search 10000 URL's backlink.
I tried on google but it gives the 403 forbidden error.
and what is syntax in msn.com for searching backlinks of URL.
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Michael - Sep 3, 2007
A few months ago I emailed the MSN team and they stated that the BackLink Check tool was removed. They didn't say anything more, just that they were flattered that we like it so much.
The reason that I used this service was that it reconized about 1000 links a month as google only reconized about 100-200 and Yahoo about 100-200. Noticing that Yahoo has made some big changes to its indexing algorithm I can no longer verify this statistics.