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Live.com or in other Windows Live is basically a search engine from Microsoft that allows users to make a search on the web in an easy and clean manner. On Live.com, you have the option to search for a web page, image, news, maps and classifieds. The design of the website is very simple and that is why the website claims it to be super clean and super fast. Live.com acts as gateway to find useful information related to academics, books, videos, feeds, products, etc. To get the best information at Live.com for your search criteria, you need to make sure that your search is really effective. You can make your search effective by using the following ways:

  • Use specific words for your search that are likely to produce the best results based on the type of information you want.
  • Do not make any spelling mistakes while performing a search and do use space in between the words in order to avoid wrong results.
  • If you are not satisfied by the results shown on the first 2-3 pages then try changing your keywords that you used to perform search with similar meanings. Different words produce different results.
  • Try to use specific keywords instead of using long words and make your search narrow.
  • If your search is based on a particular criteria like videos, books, etc. then select that category and make the search accordingly, avoiding the wrong results.
  • Try to avoid common words in your search like a, an, the, etc. because these words are automatically deleted by Live.com search function while performing a search.
  • If you are finding an answer to any particular question, then use the advanced option of QnA to find answers to your questions. If you are finding a definition for a keyword then you used write define before your keyword.

You can find more information about Live.com by visiting the following website http://www.live.com

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Live.com/Windows Live is part of the retooling of the Microsoft web application empire under a collective brand name. Many of the functions of previous Microsoft online services (like MSN.com and Hotmail.com) are being folded into the service gradually, along with newly planned applications like clipboards, contacts, folder sharing and more being implemented over time.

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One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA 98052 US

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Microsoft Corporation, Domain Administrator
+1 650 254 1184

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Live.com Home Page Analysis Summary

Titles & Headings The title and headings on the home page tell people and search engines what a website is about.
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Links & Images Relevant links to other sites are good for people and search engines. Images on a web page should be described for visually impaired visitors and search engines.
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Title

The title of a web page appears in search results as the link to that page. Learn more ...

Purpose

The title of a web page appears as a clickable link in search results and bookmarks. A descriptive, compelling home page title with relevant keywords can increase the number of people visiting the site.

Search Engines

Search engines view the text of the title tag as a strong indication of what the page is about. Accurate keywords in the title tag can help the page rank better in search results.

Length

A title tag should have fewer than 70 characters, including spaces. Major search engines won't display more than that.

Content

The title tag of your home page (and any other page on your site) should not contain the site’s domain name or URL. These will appear near the title in search results, so use your 70 characters to tell people what the page is about. The title tag should not contain any HTML, because it will be displayed incorrectly or not at all.

  • Good: This web page has a title tag.
  • Problem: The title has fewer than three words. You may not be telling people and search engines enough about this page.
The title of this site's home page:
“Sign In”

Meta Description

Search engines often use the meta description of a web page to describe it in search results. Learn more ...

Purpose

The meta description tells searchers what a web page is about. It is often displayed below the title in search results, and helps people decide if they want to visit that website.

Length

Search engines will read 200 to 250 characters, but usually display only 150, including spaces. The first 150 characters of the meta description should contain the most important keywords for that web page. Using fewer than 50 characters could mean you’re not saying enough about the page.

Content

The meta description should be engaging, and should include keywords that accurately reflect what visitors will find on the web page. The keywords should be the same ones that a site's potential customers are using to search. Include a site’s location if it is important.

  • Warning: The meta description is longer than 150 characters. Search engines will probably display only the first 150 characters, including spaces.
The meta description for this site's home page:
“Outlook.com is free modern email service from Microsoft. Get a clean clutter�free inbox, easily connect with Office Web Apps and SkyDrive and use it with your Hotmail account.”

H1 Headings

The H1 heading is an important sentence or phrase on a web page that quickly and clearly tells people and search engines what they can expect to find there. Learn more ...

Just one H1

In most cases, a web page should have just one H1 heading. Using multiple H1 headings is okay if that is a logical way to organize the page, but they should be used sparingly. That’s because search engines can view multiple H1 headings as an attempt to signal that all the content on a page is equally important, a tactic that’s seen as an attempt to game the search engine algorithms.

Purpose

Search engines look for an H1 heading to determine what a page is about. Human visitors do, too.

Content and placement

The H1 heading appears on the web page itself, unlike the page title, which people will see mostly in search results.

The H1 tag (which contains the H1 heading) is usually listed first among the other heading tags for a page. None of the major search engines, however, will penalize a site for listing H2 through H6 tags ahead of the H1 tag.

The H1 heading for a page should be different from its title. Each can target different important keywords for better SEO.

  • Problem: This web page does not have an H1 heading. It should have one.

Live.com in search results

You can see below how most search engines will display this site's home page in search results. The title is used as the link to the page, and the meta description appears below the title.

Sign In

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live.com/

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Robots

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Purpose

Website owners usually use robots.txt to let search engines know which pages or sections of their site shouldn't be indexed — for example, web contact forms, print versions of web pages and other content that's duplicated elsewhere on the site. Robots.txt can also be used to request that specific robots not index a site. For more information, read How To Use Robots.txt.

Be careful!

If you're going to use robots.txt, be careful not to accidentally exclude search engines from pages you want people to find. To learn more, read Don't Block Search Engine Crawlers.

Search engine robots

You'll need to know the names of specific search engine robots - or "bots" – if you’re going to exclude any or all of them from any part of your site.

  • Google’s bot is called Googlebot. Google is the world’s largest search engine, and is where many people discover new websites.
  • Bing’s bot is called msnbot. Bing also provides search results to people using Yahoo to search the Web. Together, Bing and Yahoo are the second largest search resource, after Google.
  • Baidu’s bot is called Baiduspider. Baidu is a major search engine in China, and the number of people using it is increasing rapidly.
  • AboutUs.org’s bot is called AboutUsBot. To create a Site Report, AboutUs uses crawling technology that’s similar to what search engines use.
  • Good: This website’s robots.txt file is not blocking major search engines from crawling its pages. Your website can appear in any engine’s search results.

Canonical Url

This website can live at www.Live.com or Live.com. It's best for your site's visibility to live at just one URL, or web address. You'll want to create a 301 redirect to the URL you choose from the other URL. Learn more ...

Choose one or the other

Whichever of these URLs you choose, make sure your website lives ONLY at that location, which is called the canonical URL for your site.

Be careful!

If you choose www.MyWebsite.com for your site, make sure people who don't type www can get to your site, too. Create a permanent 301 redirect from MyWebsite.com to www.MyWebsite.com.

If the same web page exists at two different URLs, people can choose to link to one or the other. Links from other sites to your website are valuable — they tell search engines that your site is important to people. By splitting valuable links between two identical pages, you're diluting the power of those links to help a page rank higher in search results.

Learn more about why you should have just one home page: Read Twin Home Pages: Classic SEO Mistake

  • Problem: Both Live.com and www.Live.com are redirecting to different locations.
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Web Presence

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Search Engine Visibility

Check this site's prominence around the web and in major search engines.

Backlinks

value for Google 2,800
value for Alexa 18,447

Indexed Pages

value for Google 124,000,000
value for Bing 26,000

Rank

value for Quantcast 8
value for Compete 9
value for Alexa 5

Date Last Crawled

value for Google Nov 18, 2010
value for Bing Not Available

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Social Media Visibility

value for Digg 2,079
value for Dmoz 505
value for Google Groups 8,070,000
value for Yahoo Answers 113,694
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Redirectory

Below we show domains that redirect to Live.com.

We survey every domain on the Internet ending in .com, .net, or .edu to see if any redirect to this website. Large or famous websites like Amazon.com often have many sites redirecting to them.

Domains that redirect to the home page of Live.com

A website owner can point one domain to the home page of another. Learn more ...

Capture visitors who type the wrong name

It can make a lot of sense to redirect a domain to an existing web page. For example, many people are likely to type wikipedia.com when they are really looking for wikipedia.org. Creating a redirect from wikipedia.com to wikipedia.org helps these people get to the site they want.

66 domains redirect to the home page of Live.com.

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Domains that redirect to a page within Live.com

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Get people to a specific web page

Creating a redirect from a simple domain name helps people find an existing web page that has a long, hard-to-remember URL. For example firefox.com redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.

We have not found any domains that redirect to pages within Live.com.

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