My latest project vintagecassette.com is now live for about 2 months. Good search engine rankings are essential for sites such as mine, it needs traffic to produce profit.
A few weeks ago I implemented Google sitemap to get better results in Google, only the previous html page was listed in Google even though it was removed more then a month ago.. Now after a few weeks of the Google bot visiting daily, parsing my sitemap and indexing the site it surprises me that NONE of the spidered content can be found while searching Google! The crazy thing is that sites offering dynamic (ebay) content can be found when searching for a specific product of a brand! Also strange is that Google claims you need links to get higher rankings, these sites are not linked to anything and my site is now liked to some others including some wikipedia pages but still no improvement..
While watching log files I saw traffic comming from msn.com! It seems that Microsoft is actually doing a better job with MSN then Google which seems to be too much busy with making money of it's sponsored links and other activitied then actually providing realistic search results! MSN lists my site ad the #1 for specified queries as 'nakamichi 700zxe'
Go Microsoft! (Did I write that?)