About a week before MSN officially launched, I was getting #1 for about 5 keyword pairs containing the word "nudes", and was #1 for the single keyword "nudes" itself.
That lasted until last week. For no obvious reason, I'm nowhere to be seen in the SERPS for those keywords. I'm still listed, and I get some decent traffic for odd searches, but it's nothing like it was.
Cyndalie's article is pretty dead on target. Where I was #1, there are now some bizarre results. Example - using "artistic nudes" returns "Chabaphoto Productions"
http://chabaphoto.com which redirects to
http://www.bhassa.addr.com/index1024.html. This site has a flash-based index.html, a bunch of javascript at the top that performs a popup of the actual site based on your screen resolution, the meta keywords mentions "artistic" and "nudes" in seperate places, and the meta description doesn't even have "nudes" in it whatsoever. There is no text on the page of any kind - it's all flash.
Google shows 3 backlinks, MSN shows 92.
Several other sites that are getting top ranks (for different keywords) also contain redirects. I'm surprised that MSn is allowing this. Several sites I've seen at #1 appear, from the urls, to be blog sites - actually individual pages within a blog site. Click the link and you end up in the root directory of a plain old porn site.
Try searching on "shemale". The #1 ranked site is
http://www.lovebyyoga.com/personals/. Check the page, and "shemale" doesn't show anywhere in that page. Not in the head elements, text, anything. None of the 56 backlinks have anything to do with shemale, porn, etc. They are mostly "advertising" spots on bogus one-page, sub-domained real-estate sites.
I think this is happening because MSN has somehow grunged their indexes. For example, searching on "primanudes.com" shows the root domain (
www.primanudes.com) as being cached on Feb. 8th. Another search, "Elden Bleck Uptown Models" shows the cached date for the root domain as Feb. 15th. MSN should not have the same URL cached twice.
I guess time will tell. I want my rankings back :-)