Today, Microsoft announced the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – a free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly. The SEO Toolkit Beta is available for installation via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta. It is a one more piece of the larger Microsoft Web Platform strategy, which enables developers and end-users to build great websites, experiences, and achieve success in the Web ecosystem.
As a webmaster I am really existed about this toolkit and looking forward to strat using it. So, from the first glance IIS SEO Toolkit intended to:
- Improve the amount of traffic to your site from search engines
- Control the way SE "sees" and display your website content
- Improve discoverability of your web site
The IIS SEO Toolkit includes three modules:
• Site Analysis, which suggests changes that can help improve the volume and quality of traffic to your Web site from search engines;
• Robots Exclusion, which makes it easier to control and restrict the content that search engines index and display; and
• Sitemaps and Site Indexes, which can help inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing
The IIS SEO Toolkit Beta can be installed with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta.
• For more information, visit: http://www.iis.net/extensions/SEOToolkit
• For more information on the Microsoft Web Platform, visit www.microsoft.com/web
Additional Resources:
Using IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit
Using Site Analysis to Crawl a Web Site
Using Site Analysis Reports