MSNBot is the MSN Search Web crawler that automatically crawls the Web to add information to our search index. MSNBot crawls the Web by looking for links within websites. So one of the best ways to ensure that MSNBot can find your website is to include valuable content that other sites will want to link to.

While MSNBot crawls billions of web pages, not every page that we crawl is indexed. For a site to be indexed, it must meet specific standards for content, design, and technical implementation. For example, if your site’s link structure does not have links to each page on your site, MSNBot may not be able to find all of your site’s pages.

To help ensure that your site is indexed, make sure that it adheres to our design guidelines, which will help you place important content in searchable elements of the page. Also ensure that your site does not violate any of the technical guidelines that can prevent appropriate ranking.

Submit your URL

Generally, if you follow our guidelines, you do not need to send your URL to us for MSNBot to find the site. However, if you search for your page URLs and your site does not appear in the MSN Search results, you may want to submit your site to us.

Submitting your site does not guarantee that your site will be indexed. But it does help us locate your site so that MSNBot can try to crawl it.

Guidelines for inclusion in local search results (Beta)

Our local search service returns two types of results. Follow these guidelines when you want your business or website to be included in local results:

• Business listings
  Our business listings come from publicly available local telephone records for published telephone listings. To add your business information, go to Add a New Business Listing form.

• Web results
  In the visible page text or other web page that is part of your website, include your address. Make sure your address is not solely defined within an image. Image based addresses cannot be indexed by search engine crawlers.