Submitting To MSN

[Mike]

I've just realised that one of my sites isn't even in the MSN index. So I tried to use their submit form and did everything they said, only to be told:

"Please enter a valid URL with the format: http://www.example.com/"

Anyone know how I can actually submit this site? It's a few years old so has links etc...

Cheers,
Mike

[Nico]

That's the form we are supposed to use for submitting URLs, but it's not working for me either. I used it before, but now it's not working.

[agua]

MSN ignores a lot of my sites too

[megrisoft]

Yes I also checked and it is not working.This shows why they lag behind Google.

[cooluks]

Linking to already crawled sites by MSN may do the trick....

Why it is not recommended to submit to SEs?

Search engines crawl the web every few weeks (or months) looking for websites to index. Here's how it works:

* Search engines start at one website with a large number of outbound links (usually a directory)
* They follow every link they come across, indexing each page they arrive at
* Once a page has been indexed they follow all the links from that page
* And so on until there are no more links to follow

[lee_vhoi_ol]

Linking to already crawled sites by MSN may do the trick....

I agree. Try posting in blogs, directories, and forums already listed in MSN.