Last week saw the launch of a free search engine optimisation tool for websites from Microsoft. The new software called ’SEO Toolkit’ works with websites which are supported by Microsoft Internet Information Services Web servers.
The Toolkit can be used to optimise keywords in order to improve website hit counts. It also crawls through external as well as local websites to check for a range of problems, from broken links, invalid markup and slow loading pages. The tool optimises sites searched by search engine giants Bing, Google, Yahoo and other search engines.
The program was first released in June as a beta, and launched officially last Tuesday. It can also manage site map files which search engines use to grab URLs and check which URLs get excluded by search engines through a ‘robots exclusion module’. According to Microsoft’s description, the module checks robot.txt.files
Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer needs to be used, in order to install the toolkit. It is a completely free download available from Microsoft and the Web Platform Installer centralises the installation of Microsoft software used for Web sites.
The SEO Toolkit will run on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. It can be downloaded at this Microsoft Web site, which provides support materials and a demo.
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