Got Crawl Issues? Live Search Can Help (Part 1)
Another good article by Jason Lee Miller. He is a WebProNews editor and writer covering business and technology. Have been having crawl issues for your site? Read up on how Live Search can help you.
Microsoft launched its first major update to Live Search Webmaster Tools since November, adding crawl issue feedback, backlink data, improved filtering, and the ability to export data in CSV format to Excel for offline analysis.
WebProNews got a sneak peak of the update from Live Search’s Jeremiah Andrick and Nathan Buggia, who say, “search has become mission critical” for websites. This update to the Webmaster Tools service is intended to help webmasters achieve better rankings in Live Search, and to provide a two-way dialog between webmasters and Live Search.
In other words, it answers a lot of FAQs, provides a lot of data, and eliminates a lot of theorizing in terms of penalties and/or achieving higher placement. “No other search engine provides this data,” Buggia assured us.
The update revolves around a few frequently posed questions about improving a website’s relationship with a search engine. Is my site being crawled and indexed? Did the Live Search bot encounter any issues while crawling my site? Have I incurred any penalties? Who’s linking to my site? Is my robots.txt file configured properly?
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