According Technorati, every day over 40 news posts appear which explain Google rankings. At the same time I did not find any posts which appeared today about MSN rankings.

  We shouldn’t forget that MSN / Live search engine share about 15% of all searchers worldwide. Also, MSN is the 5th the most popular website in the world. This search engine could provide extremely high traffic for some websites and it is important to rank well if 1-2 clicks could bring quite a big amount of money for your business.

  MSN and new websites:
  MSN crawl websites pretty fast and could index new pages faster than Google or Yahoo. New sites which just appeared could be indexed in less than 1 day if they made in HTML / XHTML. Delays in indexing are possible for PHP sites like Wordpress blogs or Joomla content.

  MSN and rankings:
  It is easy to rank top 10 on MSN if you target keywords in anchor text but your other content could rank pretty low at the same time. Submission on free directories could have an amazing effect for keywords you have targeted. Many websites which rank well on Google and work only for Google ranking are losing MSN positions. It is easier for small firms to get good positions from MSN.

  MSN algorithm changes.
  MSN / Live search engine changes algorithm pretty often. Sudden drops and increases are typical for any website and there is no reason to panic when you lost some traffic. Easy to say, MSN / Live traffic are not stabile and you cannot rely on this.

  MSN and paid links.
  MSN claims that they can recognize paid / sponsored links. At the same time, MSN team says that it is not MSN policy to punish websites for buying or selling links.

  MSN and “nofollow”.
  Google, Yahoo, and MSN agreed not to index links if it with “nofollow” tag. So, it is better not to spam blog comments, forums, and guest books.

  MSN hates.
  Back in 2006 it was a big issue when websites which use reciprocal link exchange services lost all MSN rankings. MSN punish websites for link exchanges with unrelated sites. Forget about your MSN rankings if you joined Link2me or any other link exchange program.