What are MSN Search most important algorithms at the moment?

Michel Z. said: "I noticed that my 'smiley' sites dropped rankings last few months within MSN Search. Many of them even totally vanished which had very dominating rankings in the past. Most of my sites were ranked top-5 or 1st page! At the moment I have only few sites ranked well. All of my sites have basicly same content, layout, etc. but each one targeting specific keyword. Each site was therefore also ranked high for that particular keyword! Regarding my knowledge the following algorithms were always important for MSN: - MSN likes keywords in domain; - Number of backlinks plays a role for a certain amount; - MSN is grazy about keywords in 'title' of site, but also likes keywords in 'headers'! - Also number of times same keyword has been used within content plays a role. At the moment I am working on all my sites again in order to get my high rankings back, therefore wondering what regarding you opinion MSN Search most important algorithms are [B]at this time[/B]!! Preferrable, ONLY reply to my thread when you are more or the less an expert on MSN Search SEO. Your experience with Google and/or Yahoo SEO will not help me directly (although MSN copies concepts of Google/Yahoo). [I] I need to figure out how MSN Search ranks sites right now & where MSN crawlers look at in particular![/I] Many thanks in advance! :)"

edwin said: "msn loves links from blogspot too. if you haven't already, create a blog there and link back to you main site from some blog posts."

Michel Z. said: "[QUOTE=edwin]msn loves links from blogspot too. if you haven't already, create a blog there and link back to you main site from some blog posts.[/QUOTE] Thanks Edwin! How powerful is linking back from blog posts to sites? How much you think that will boost rankings within MSN? What other suggestions do you have to get my sites back to 1st page MSN again? What should I change/add to my sites in order to do so? :)"

edwin said: "it helps a lot. write a related post and put your link in the middle of it somewhere. the more related the text the better the boost."

Heather said: "MSN is also fond of links. You might want to consider link partners or trusted directories as another source for related links.."

Darksat said: "Also Fresh content, MSN Loves fresh Content."