Getting your site indexed on MSN

MSNBot is the MSN Search web crawler that automatically crawls the Web to add information to our search index. MSNBot crawls the web by looking for links within websites. So one of the best ways to ensure that MSNBot can find your website is to include valuable content that other sites will want to link to.

While MSNBot crawls billions of web pages, not every page that we crawl is indexed. For a site to be indexed, it must meet specific standards for content, design, and technical implementation. For example, if your site’s link structure does not provide links to each page on your site, MSNBot may not be able to find all of your site’s pages.
Make sure that your site adheres to our design guidelines, which will help you place important content in searchable elements of the page. Also ensure that your site does not violate any of the technical guidelines that can prevent appropriate ranking.

Find out if your site has been indexed
To see if your site is listed in our index, you can run queries in MSN Search using the URLs for each of your site’s pages as the search terms. If your site has recently been posted, or you have made changes to your site, it may take several weeks for your updates to appear in MSN Search results.

In the MSN Search box, replace www.microsoft.com with your site address to see if your site is listed in our index:

Submit your URL
Generally, if you follow our guidelines, you do not need to send your URL to us for MSNBot to find the site. However, if you search for your page URLs and your site does not appear in the MSN Search results, you may want to submit your site to us.
Submitting your site does not guarantee that your site will be indexed. It simply helps us locate your site so that MSNBot can try to crawl it.
Remove your site or web pages from the MSN Search index
To prevent your site or pages from appearing in the MSN Search index, use any of these methods:
Create a robots.txt file on your site and block MSNBot from indexing your site.
Add a noindex meta tag to pages that you do not want indexed.
Use a secure location on your web server to host the site (for example, require users to sign in or use HTTPS).

To have your site removed from MSN Search immediately, send mail to MSN Search site removal.

Remove the pages from your site.
Note that it may take awhile for MSN Search to complete an indexing update that reflects your changes.