MSN bot not visiting

[GoldDust]

Since my site has been up this is about 6 months - I havent been visited by the MSN bot as of yet..Is this normal?


Anybody have any good reasons for this?

Thanx
Gold

[Brian Turner]

Are you absolutely sure you haven't been visited? I ask because it's really Awstats that alerts me when the MSN bot turns up - Webalizer isn't very good for showing it's visits, and I haven't relied on analog for some time.

If it hasn't been yet then I would simply guess it's a matter of time - certainly it's visited here quite a bit.

[GoldDust]

I have checked my awstats and no the whole time my site has been up I have not seen the MSN bot on my stats for visited bots.

[Brian Turner]

Then I should think it's got to be sometime soon.

[GoldDust]

no worries i'll wait - i'll make the coffee now then... lol

[Brian Turner]

A little tip that might help is getting a few more static links - how are you up on getting those?

[GoldDust]

Static links? tell me more please...

[Brian Turner]

Inktomi-based systems like static links best - I've heard tell of Inktomi spiders spidering some dynamic content - but that they much prefer to harvest new URLs from static pages.

Now...the Yahoo! Slurp bot is effectively an Inktomi spider with stripes on it - but the new MSN bot I know little of. It seems to be fine with spidering dynamic content, despite session URLs - but if it does share any temperamental habits of Inktomi - which powered the original MSN search - then it's worth investing in some static links.

Have you taken out an ad in www.Bluefind.com yet? Static URLs plus good PageRank...