Having issues with Live Search indexing sites properly?

Many webmasters, and SEO experts will agree that getting a site fully indexed in MSN Live Search is not a easy task. Webmasters have issues with Live Search indexing sites properly. I personally find it pretty embrassing at times. Finally we have a clue of what is going on from Jeremiah Andrick, product manager for MSN Live.

In a lengthy interview with Web Pro News, he outlined possible reasons for indexing issues. Jeremiah said most indexing issues fall into one of three categories:

1. Problems with design

2. Problems with content

3. Technological issues

According to Jeremiah, “It tends to be technological issues, or the content itself, that’s the problem,” when people are having trouble being indexed correctly. “Most people are kind of hip to using better structure in their site,” so design isn’t as often the culprit.

Jeremiah cited a mix between design and content as a specific problem. “Most publishing systems and CMSs a lot of people are using were designed 3 or 4 years ago,” he said, before the now widespread recognition of the importance of crawlability and SEO in site design. As a result, some of these systems aren’t exactly the most efficient or effective in making a site’s content crawlable.

In terms of being totally optimized, Jeremiah said, “People do what they can, but I don’t think they always do enough or that they are not necessarily doing the right things”.

View the video here.