Microsoft announes new Webmaster Tools

Move aside Google; Microsoft announces a competitive service called Webmaster Portal.

According to a Live Search Weblog post the singular focus of this tool is to build the next-generation set of tools, content and resources for SEO professionals and webmasters.

Microsoft is calling it “Webmaster Portal” and it will be a single, friendly place to find all tools and information relating to Live Search SEO.

It will 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

The tools are not available yet and Microsoft have created a private beta program to let you get your hands on the tools sooner: to get your feedback so they can “spit-and-polish” the tools.

If you are interested in testing the new tools send an email to lswmp@microsoft.com to apply!

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