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:
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
Later this year, Microsoft has announced that there will be a public beta of "Live Search Webmaster Portal," a collection of tools and information for site owners akin to the Google Webmaster Central and Yahoo Site Explorer offerings from those
Congrats on the big announcement!
That's great news!
Looking forward to it.
Cheers!
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We wouldn’t mind participating in Beta, after all, what can be better than a merchants point of view.
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this should have been implemented way back, but good thing is , live search is dealing with the search competition.
It will be very useful for webmasters, wish a success for this project.
I really hope that you bring back linkdomain: functionality most of all.
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.
Looking forward to the tools - and participating in the beta test.
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
Many are excited that Microsoft has announced that they will be building out a webmaster portal. The portal will be similar to that of Yahoo's Site Explorer of Google's Webmaster Central. As Danny Sullivan explains, the portal will help consolidate..
Really cool information hoping to get an invite for it
Good going ....congrates n welcomes
Great news! Looking forward to using Webmaster Portal.
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