Earlier this year I participated in an online focus group where questions were asked about various webmaster and SEO tools. The session was run by a third party and I was able to get them to admit it was for Microsoft. Tonight, like many others that showed interest, I received an invite to register from Nathan Buggia, Sr. Product Manager of the Live Search Webmaster Tools Team.
Similar to Google’s Webmaster Tools (Vanessa Fox interview here) and Yahoo’s Site Explorer tools (Tim Mayer interview here), the services included in this Beta of Microsoft’s Windows Live Webmaster Portal appear to be split up into three categories:
Troubleshooting
Site crawling
Site Indexing
Robots.txt
Sitemaps
Sitemaps
Creation
Submission (upload, autodiscovery)
Ping
Stats
Top search terms for your domain
Top search terms for other domains
Top keywords on your site
Inbound links to your site
Inbound links to other sites
Outbound links from your site
Outbound links from other sites
Perceived site quality score
Number of pages indexed
Search Engine Land has a […]
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If you love good, attractive layouts, then you are going to love Dave Naylor’s UK SEO blog too. Dave is an SEO consultant who believes in getting ranked #1 with a mixture of both White Hat and Black Hat SEO tactics — it all depends on the need of the hour.
You don’t find long, tutorial […]
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With so much uncertainty due to inflated promises, bad press and a fast changing industry, what “signals” of credibility do companies look for in trusted internet marketing partners and resources? Our gift to you today is an annotated list of 25. In one way or another, TopRank is involved with all of the following marketing and PR tactics either for ourselves or for our marketing and public relations clients.
But I’m also curious what Online Marketing Blog Readers have to say on this topic. Let’s have a little vote shall we? After the list there is a poll so you can vote for your favorite.
Client Testimonials - Tried and true, the client story of success is often one of the first things that catches the eye when looking at potential vendors. Common mistakes include testimonials that are too enthusiastic or those that are benign but packed as […]
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