Live Search Webmaster Portal In Beta
Well Microsoft Live Search is finally joining Yahoo and Google in giving webmasters access to information about their sites through a webmaster portal. Even though they are behind the times as usual, at least they are doing it. Get Found Now are beta testers of the portal and we will be passing along useful information to our readers as we use the new portal.
The public release of Live Search’s Webmaster Portal will be available to the public sometime in the fall. Since March Microsoft has been working on tools to help webmasters. I am sure you noticed that you couldn’t search for backlinks on Live anymore. This is the result of fixing the problems that link searches created. They will also be adding these tools:
- Troubleshooting tools to ensure MSNBot is effectively crawling and indexing your site
- Sitemap creation, submission and ping tools
- Statistics about your website
- Consolidation of content submission resources
- New content and community resources
This is a solid move on their part to increase the interactivity of their site. Even though Live is a distant third in the grand scheme of searches, their 8 or 9% market share still results in millions of searches per day. The bottom line is nobody is in a position to ignore any types of major traffic sources. We’ll be keeping an eye on this and will pass on to you what we have learned.
