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They are gradually ranking better on yahoo and google and were ranking really well on msn for a year+ then the past couple of weeks one by one they are no where to be found on msn. I havent changed anything and they arent spam sites. Does msn have new guidlines I dont know about with their live search?

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has three sites that dropped out of MSN/LIVE rankings over the last few weeks; already checked and confirmed there is no outright “ban,” and ’s point about algorithm churn is useful — this looks like an indexing or quality-filter event, not a domain suspension. The next steps are triage: confirm how Bing is seeing the sites, find any crawl/index errors, and check for recent site or link-pattern changes that could trigger a quality demotion.

Quick diagnostic checklist to run now:

  • Use Bing Webmaster Tools to check Index Coverage, Crawl Errors, Security/Malware flags, and any manual actions. (Bing Webmaster Tools: https://www.bing.com/webmasters)
  • Verify robots.txt, meta robots tags, canonical tags and HTTP responses for important pages; inspect server logs or use a fetch-as-bot tool so you see what Bingbot receives.
  • Look for recent technical changes (new host/IP, redirects, CDN misconfiguration, accidental noindex) and for spikes in low-quality inbound links. Use a backlink tool to spot sudden unnatural link patterns.
  • Audit page quality: thin/duplicate content, doorway pages, and pages that are primarily ad-heavy can be devalued by search quality algorithms even if there is no formal “ad limit.” If AdSense is on the page, ensure content is the main focus and policies are followed.

Immediate recovery actions: fix any crawl/index errors, resubmit an up-to-date sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools, request reindexing for fixed URLs, and monitor logs and rankings for 2–4 weeks. If nothing changes after that and diagnostics show no issues, open a support ticket through Bing Webmaster Tools and compare a few competitor pages that kept rankings to identify differences.

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Does msn have any kind of limit to how many adsense ads can be on a certain page?

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Are you sure you're "banned" on MSN?

In the live.com query box, type site:yourdomain.com and see if it shows up.

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Ok Im not banned but I have lost ranking on all my sites on msn. They ranked fine when live was first launched but now they went from top 10 to not found in the top 1000

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When you say you don't rank, do you mean for a particular keyword? Search engines are constantly improving their algorithms - sometimes you'll rank good for one thing and bad for something else, and then next month you rank good for another thing entirely.

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Yeah I have 3 sites and they all ranked really well for a bunch of keywords on msn for a long time, but now nothing. Im not really sure what happened.

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