Came across a great thread on Search Engine Watch forums about the importance of current algorithms on MSN? What does the SEO need to know about MSN Search in order to ranking effectively? What are the algo experts saying about current patterns and observations in MSN?
Well some of the members have chimed in and posted about possible algorithms and changes that affect ranking in MSN. Obviously there a lot of factors that combine to come together to produce the results in MSN. Incoming backlinks are rising in importance, and what else? According to the one of the posters when "optimize[ing] for MSN pay attention to Key word phrases (specificly getting them in the right order), use good description and title tags, good h1 and h2 tags, keyword tags don't hurt so toss em in". Many of the other member concur that titles are very important for MSN and having a correctly optimized and worded title can be make a campaign a success.
For more discussion on MSN surf on over to SEW for the full thread.