Live Search Webmaster Center

Infobox Software
name = Live Search
"Webmaster Center"



caption = Live Search Webmaster Center
developer = Microsoft
latest_release_version = Final
latest_release_date = August 6 2008
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system =
genre = Webmaster portal
license =
website = [http://webmaster.live.com http://webmaster.live.com]

Live Search Webmaster Center is a part of the Live Search group of tools in Microsoft's Windows Live range of services which allows webmasters to add their websites to the Live Search index crawler. The service also offers tools for webmasters to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of their website, sitemap creation, submission and ping tools, website statistics, consolidation of content submission, and new content and community resources. [ [http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/08/22/our-new-webmaster-portal-and-an-invitation-to-the-private-beta.aspx Live Search blog: Our New Webmaster Portal and an Invitation to the Private Beta] ]

Features

Live Search Webmaster Center contains the following tools and features to support webmasters to access data and manage their websites on Live Search:
*Crawl issues allows webmasters to discover potential issues with their websites such as File Not Found (404) errors, blocked by REP, long dynamic URLs, and unsupported content-types
*Backlink data allows webmasters to access to data about their referring links
*Advanced filtering allow webmasters to quickly scope the results in their website reports to zoom into the data they need
*Data download allow webmasters to access the first 1000 results in a CSV file to analyze the results
*Keyword search tool
*Robots.txt validator
*HTTP verifier
*Sitemaps
*Outbound links

References

ee also

*Windows Live
*Live Search

External links

* [http://webmaster.live.com/ Live Search Webmaster Center]
* [http://search.live.com Live Search]
* [http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/ Live Search Webmaster Center official team blog]
* [http://forums.microsoft.com/webmaster/default.aspx?siteid=79 Live Search Webmaster Center official forum]