Who isn't looking for help in Search Engine Optmization of their websites in search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. There is a Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) Toolkit for IIS 7 that helps you understand how to optimize your website for search engines as well as has comparison reports that help you understand how a change to the website effects the search engine optimization characterstics of your website after the change.
Per the Search Engine Optimization Toolkit Description:
“The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps Web developers, hosting providers, and Web server administrators to improve their Web site’s relevance in search results by recommending how to make the site content more search engine-friendly. The IIS SEO Toolkit includes the Site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let you perform detailed analysis and offer recommendations and editing tools for managing your Robots and Sitemaps files.”
There are essentially 3 modules to help you with various aspects of search engine optimization:
- Site Analysis Module - The Site Analysis module allows users to analyze local and external Web sites with the purpose of optimizing the site's content, structure, and URLs for search engine crawlers. In addition, the Site Analysis module can be used to discover common problems in the site content that negatively affects the site visitor experience.
- Robots Exclusion Module - The Robots Exclusion module enables Web site owners to manage the robots.txt file from within the IIS Manager interface. This file is used to control the indexing of specified URLs, by disallowing search engine crawlers from accessing them.
- Sitemap and Site Indexes Module - The Sitemaps and Site Indexes module enables Web site owners to manage the sitemap files and sitemap indexes on the site, application, and folder level to help keep search engines up to date.
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