MSN Partner Hub feed publishing status and dashboard tools

Brand overview

Get an aggregated reported of all content and feeds from your selected brand at a glance.

Overview of brand metrics and feed list in MSN Partner Hub

Check publishing status

You can check the status of all your posts in the content dashboard on MSN Partner Hub. All is the default view, which shows all of your content chronologically regardless of type, but you can use the Articles, Videos, or Slideshows tabs to filter to that post type.

Draft posts have not yet been submitted for publication.
Under review posts have been submitted and are still pending moderation approval.
Published posts have been submitted and approved and are visible on MSN.
Rejected posts have issues that need to be resolved before approval and publication. To further manage your rejected posts, apply filters such as 'Appealable,' 'Appealing,' ‘Appeal denied’ or ‘Appeal error’ to check the appeal status.
Unpublished posts were taken down by you or your team.

View of the content dashboard and a list of articles with different publishing statuses.

View detailed item info

View detailed information about your content to help you troubleshoot issues or rejection reasons.

Review the content status, content type, content source, document ID, the name of the feed it's served to, the GUID, and the canonical URL in one place.
Understand rejection reasons and receive guidance on how to correct issues with streamlined access to the appeal process if needed.

View of detailed information panels in MSN Partner Hub

Expiration details

Posts automatically expire 365 days after publication and will no longer be accessible to readers after that point.

For your convenience, the Content info dashboard posts that are nearing expiration will display a counter showing how many days left until expiry.

This counter is set from the last update, so evergreen posts that are regularly updated will have their counters reset whenever they are edited.

Download content reports

Access comprehensive content information by downloading your content report. The report can be downloaded by content type, content status, content source, and search terms in a selected time range with detailed information at the brand, feed, and content level.

View of content report download screen

Filter and search your content

Your list shows content from all sources by default. If you would like to filter that view to show only feeds from a particular type of source, such as only editor content or only feed content:

Click the drop-down next to the search box to narrow your search.
Use the search box to search your content by keywords used in the title.
Select the brand you'd like to search and enter your search terms into the box up at the top right of the Content page.
You can search all types of that brand's content or set search parameters to narrow results down to Articles, Slideshows, or Video.

Republish evergreen posts

You are welcome to publish evergreen content to MSN Partner Hub regardless of when it was written. Just note that by default the original publication date will be displayed. Remember to provide a validated canonical URL for each post.

Validate canonical URLs

Canonical URLs help keep posts from being flagged as duplicates, which could negatively impact SEO. To make sure the canonical URL for a post is functioning correctly, validate it using an external tool.

Start from the list of articles on your profile page. Be sure to use the link from this page, as links from the Homepage are in "endless scroll" mode and cannot be parsed by the validation tool.
Copy the URL of the article you would like to check and delete everything after the ? symbol.
Navigate to the canonical URL checker you would like to use and paste the URL there. You may be able to validate multiple URLs at once.

Tip: Some MSN publishers use www.seoreviewtools.com/canonical-url-location-checker, but please be advised that this is a third-party site that Microsoft does not provide support for.

Update or edit posts

To update or edit a post you have already published on MSN:

Log in to MSN Partner Hub
Unpublish the old version of the post
Make your changes to the post on your website
Re-upload the content

Notes:

The content will have to be validated by the moderation team again before going live.
Updated content should have the same content ID as the original and be tagged with new published or updated tags, according to the standards specified in the content specifications for ATOM or RSS.
Updated items that are not flagged in one of the specified ways will be skipped by Ingestion Services. Inline images can be updated but only if they have new image URLs. Articles with updated inline images that have not updated their image URLs will still display the old images.

Unpublish or delete posts

To remove an article, video or gallery from MSN:

Log in to MSN Partner Hub
Select the relevant brand
Navigate to Content under the Content management section in the left-hand menu
Locate the content using the search feature
Select Take down to remove the content

MSN Partner Hub feed publishing status and dashboard tools

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