« links for 2007-10-15
links for 2007-10-16 »
Oct
15th

Microsoft Live Search Submission Broke

Posted in Technology by User ImageDouglas Karr at 7:58 pm

Thanks for stopping by my personal blog on Marketing Technology! Over 50,000 visitors a month find my content worth returning for, so don't forget to subscribe to the Marketing Technology Blog RSS feed or to the Marketing Technology Email to have new content sent directly to your inbox. You may also find my other business blog helpful, Social Media Domination.

Quite a few folks wrote me to let me know that, no matter what they tried, they could not submit their domain to Microsoft Live Search Submission. Any submission results in the following error:

Please enter a valid URL with the format: http://www.example.com/

I wrote their feedback form tonight to let them know. Hopefully they’ll get it back up soon.

Sigh… how hard can it be to test your form?

You might also find these posts interesting:

RSS feed | Trackback URI

6 Comments »

Comment by no imageScott (SezWho)
2007-10-16 07:14:43

I got the same thing… amazing. Just to see if they left out some characters I had tried it in several different ways, i.e., without the www or http etc, and nothing worked. You would think the lack of receiving traffic on their end would give them a clue, perhaps no one has pointed it out yet?
Rate this:
2.9
Reply to this comment
 
Comment by no imageJim Cota (SezWho)
2007-10-16 09:40:24

Just FYI, as far as I can tell, this has been this way for quite a while. I first encountered the problem a few months ago. I had originally thought it might be a “this only works if you’re using IE7″ issue, but we’ve tried with nearly every browser on the planet with the same results.

Good luck getting it fixed!

/Jim

Rate this:
2.9
Reply to this comment
 
Comment by no imageBrad (SezWho)
2007-10-26 02:07:38

Just tried the form tonight, with the same results. Happened to be using IE7.
Rate this:
1.6
Reply to this comment
 
Comment by no imageCindy (SezWho)
2007-10-26 21:37:23

Don’t feel so bad..They accidentally dropped my site completely off of Live Search after this upgrade, and I cannot even resubmit my site because the submission is broken. My site was ranking on most keywords the 1st and 2nd page. When they get the submission fixed, I will have to resubmit all of my pages and start from scratch again…bummer!
Rate this:
1.6
Reply to this comment
 
Comment by no imageRené Garcia (SezWho)
2007-10-30 11:13:55

Yeah, I thought I was going crazy when I tried submitting my site, as well. Crawled the Web about this issue and seems like people have been having this problem as early as Jan. 07. How does MS plan on competing with Google for SE real estate when they can’t even keep their submission page in working order?
Rate this:
3.0
Reply to this comment
 
Comment by no imagemodifoo (SezWho)
2008-02-09 06:46:01

…so there actually are people using msn.

I keep learning new things ;)

Rate this:
2.9
Reply to this comment
 
Name (required)
E-mail (required - never shown publicly)
URI
Your Comment (smaller size | larger size)
You may use <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> in your comment.

My Comment Policy: I moderate comments. Please be patient:

  • Spam will happily be destroyed.
  • Use your real name, not some keywords. Otherwise it will be destroyed.
  • Mean comments aren't necessary. If I don't post them I will reply personally to let you know why.
  • Lewd comments will be edited, I don't want my readers leaving because of offensive content.
Great debate, criticism and colorful commentary is always appreciated and approved!