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Our New Webmaster Portal and an Invitation to the Private Beta

August 22, 2007, 07:56 PM by Bing | 64 Comments

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 (we’re really good at marketing), it will be a single, friendly place to find all tools and information relating to Live Search SEO. Initially we’ll 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 we’ve created a private beta program to let adventuresome folks get their hands on the tools sooner – and help polish things by providing feedback. If you’re interested in participating in the beta program over the next few months, please send a mail to lswmp@microsoft.com to apply!

-- Nathan Buggia, Sr. Product Manager - Webmaster & Developer
-- Ryan Burkhardt, Group Program Manager - Webmaster & Developer

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Dean

Posted On August 22, 2007, 10:25 PM

Congrats on the big announcement!


Mani

Posted On August 23, 2007, 01:30 AM

That's great news!

Looking forward to it.

Cheers!

Mani


Wave Shoppe

Posted On August 23, 2007, 01:53 AM

We wouldn’t mind participating in Beta, after all, what can be better than a merchants point of view.

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Leo

Posted On August 23, 2007, 04:17 AM

this should have been implemented way back, but good thing is , live search is dealing with the search competition.


Alex

Posted On August 23, 2007, 05:06 AM

It will be very useful for webmasters, wish a success for this project.


Ian

Posted On August 23, 2007, 05:09 AM

I really hope that you bring back linkdomain: functionality most of all.


Christopher Kata

Posted On August 23, 2007, 07:00 AM

Congratulations! This is fantastic news in my opinion. By innovating and providing tools like these to the Webmasters and SEOs out there MS will continue to grow their share of search!

We're very much looking forward to BETA testing the new tools.


Deborah

Posted On August 23, 2007, 09:08 AM

Looking forward to the tools - and participating in the beta test.


Dave

Posted On August 23, 2007, 05:22 PM

Your going in the right direction. When you offer more/additional tools to webmasters, you stimulate more interest in your services. However, I think it is important to note that your webmaster tool should conserve time, that is, they should not be time consuming.  Webmasters want efficient tools.

Thanks


Ankur Mittal

Posted On August 24, 2007, 06:24 AM

Really cool information hoping to get an invite for it


Raj Ydav

Posted On August 24, 2007, 06:29 AM

Good going ....congrates n welcomes


Vladimir

Posted On August 24, 2007, 07:22 AM

Great news! Looking forward to using Webmaster Portal.


Web

Posted On August 24, 2007, 10:49 AM

Also please include Archived Rankings for Selected Queries


Millionaire

Posted On August 24, 2007, 11:47 AM

i just can't believe that MS denied my affiliate request.


Jaan Kanellis

Posted On August 24, 2007, 01:23 PM

It is about time MSN.  Now I wonder you will approve and deny.


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