Canadian Content Listed in MSN News

Andem

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Well, our news and commentary articles have been listed in Google News for over 2 years now and MSN has finally caught on that people use News services such as that to find relevant articles. Now we're listed in MSN News (IE: http://search.msn.com/news/results.aspx?q=Earthquake+hits+near+Ottawa+&FORM=QBNR3 ), although its a little slow.. that article was published on Feb 25, not Feb 27. :)

Anyways, that explains the extra load on our server these days.. it seems this bot refreshes Canadian Content's home page every few seconds, whew.

So if you want a commentary or news article written by yourself to show up on Google News and now MSN News, be sure to submit it at http://www.canadiancontent.net/commtr/submit_news.html.
 

Andem

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By the way, their normal web crawler bot at MSN is a real drain on the forums... whenever you see 200 users online, it probably means MSN is hitting the site.. Great for them, but they hardly send any traffic to the site. I've gone ahead and told their robot to only access the site once every 10 seconds.. That should keep them off my back for a while.