MSN's New Rankings
MSN has been rolling out updates to their algorithm and it appears to be helping for search engine relevancy. 6-8 sites that I am associated with have seen nothing but improved rankings on relevant terms.
I am thinking that this update is attacking over optimized sites that focus on too many terms per page. You need to not force as many keywords on a page as you can to broaden your keyword theme. You need to stick to the terms that are relevant for the page and keep the visitor in mind.
MSN Search Forum Talks
It's All About Who's the Best Link Builder Now..Still!
With all the improvements with Google it still comes down to who has the best links and content is secondary.
With
TrustRank there came a better judging of link power and quality. This helped with spam, but didn't help new sites or great informational sites being found that don't want to mass-link build. Sure any business is about marketing, but a search engine's organic results are based on the best information available. It shouldn't matter how many links you have. If your site covers the topic in the most detail and with the best internal theme then you should be seen as the best content resource.
Yes I know this is impossible for a robot to crawl a site and understand the content more then just a ramble of words in a certain density, but search engines should be working towards that more then the most popular kid in school gets all the traffic.
