As a VP candidate once famously said, “Who am I? Why am I here?” I’m Rick DeJarnette, and I’ve been with the Live Search Webmaster Center team since fall, 2008, learning the ropes, helping with writing and editing work on both the tools Help system and the blog. I have a long and advanced technical writing background, focused on both IT Pro and end user topics. I’ve been involved with web technologies since the mid-1990s, and have always had a particular passion for helping people get more out of technology to improve their lives. I was recently given the opportunity to develop a new series for the blog, oriented toward search engine marketing (SEM) for novices,...
The Live Search development team is busy making significant improvement to the quality and depth of our search index, and these changes often affect how our crawler, MSNBot , collects data. As we test new algorithms, we invite webmasters to contact us to give us feedback on these changes, especially if you have any concerns. Live Search always encourages webmasters to use our product support escalation paths to help identify and resolve issues as quickly as possible. We thought this would be a good time for a quick reminder on how to send us your feedback. For specific questions and concerns about our bot behavior and crawl frequency , please do one of the following: Check the Live Search Webmaster...
