MSN indexing a refferal page, not my homepage?

September 27th, 2005, 7:34 am

Ok, I have a refferal program for my users.. urls go to http://www.mydomain.com?ref=username

When the hit my page I 301 them to the http://www.mydomain.com after marking them as reffered... All works swell except MSN is indexing a refferal as my homepage and it destroyed my rankings on MSN.. Any ideas on a reason? I did the .htaccess re-direct over a onth ago but MSN is still causing me issues.. site:www.allfreechips.com


any ideas are very welcome!

-Chris

September 27th, 2005, 9:05 am

Wow, I sent it into MSN and within an hour my root is indexed.. Unbelievable...

October 11th, 2005, 2:35 am

what do you mean you sent it to MSN? you contacted them?

October 11th, 2005, 9:38 am

yes, there is a submit form, i actully found the link form here somewhere.. search and you will find it

October 14th, 2005, 7:07 am

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October 14th, 2005, 8:19 am

yes I was amax\zed at both the listening and the immediate action from it.. I think i may ask for the top spot in a few keywords and see how that flies j/k

October 15th, 2005, 11:33 am

You say you did a 301 redirect via .htaccess right?

What is the line that you used to redirect them?

July 3rd, 2009, 3:48 am

I know this for sure because my client is fantatical about the search engines and tests If this particular web page is the main index page for a site, by using a redirect on a home page may cause the site not to be listed by the Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer

Angelina Jacob