08-26-2007, 12:46 PM
Quote:Our New Webmaster Portal and an Invitation to the Private Beta
Shortly after that day in March when we had to take the link: operator offline, a small team was formed in Redmond. Its singular focus: to build the next-generation set of tools, content and resources for SEO professionals and webmasters (and get link: back in your hands). Creatively named Webmaster Portal (were really good at marketing), it will be a single, friendly place to find all tools and information relating to Live Search SEO. Initially well support these scenarios:
* 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
While we expect the tools to be available publicly in late Fall, we still have some polishing to do. In the meantime weve created a private beta program to let adventuresome folks get their hands on the tools sooner and help polish things by providing feedback. If youre interested in participating in the beta program over the next few months, please send a mail to lswmp @microsoft.com to apply!
announcement: http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive...-beta.aspx