IIS SEO Toolkit Beta – Now Available

Microsoft released the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – a free, downloadable toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators improving 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.

The IIS SEO Toolkit will:

• Improve the volume and quality of traffic to Web site from search engines
• Control how search engines access and display Web content
• Inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing

The IIS SEO Toolkit includes three modules that integrate with IIS Manager:

• Website Analysis, which suggests changes that can help improve the volume and quality of traffic to your Web site from search engines;
  • Report Summary Dashboard
  • Detailed URL information
  • Route Analysis
  • Word Analysis
• Robots.txt Exclusion, which makes it easier to control and restrict the content that search engines index and display; and
  • Selecting URL paths from physical & virtual/logical view of website – the paths that are specified for “Allow” and “Disallow” directives in robots.txt file
• Sitemaps and Site Indexes, which can help inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing.
  • Selecting URL’s from physical & virtual/logical view of website

• For more information, visit: http://www.iis.net/extensions/SEOToolkit