Last week MSN announced Webmaster Portal should be available in late fall and offered a chance to apply to test out the beta and provide feedback.
I am not aware that the beta has actually started, however, I was sent an email to register for the beta. It was a simple form requesting information about me, the websites that I would include in the beta and some interesting questions about the tools and information that I would like to see. This included some insight into what they are planning to offer (they even categorized them):
- Troubleshooting – Site crawling
- Sitemaps – Ping
- Stats – Inbound links to other sites
- Troubleshooting – Site Indexing
- Stats – Top search terms for your domain
- Stats – Outbound links from your site
- Troubleshooting – Robots.txt
- Stats – Top search terms for other domains
- Stats – Outbound links from other sites
- Troubleshooting – Sitemaps
- Stats – Top keywords on your site
- Stats – Perceived site quality score
- Sitemaps – Creation
- Stats – Inbound links to your site
- Stats – Number of pages indexed
- Sitemaps – Submission (upload, autodiscovery)
The tools that I really want to see are highlighted
This may not say much, but if you look at the categories you will find three consistent areas that they are concerned with providing webmasters with:
- Stats
- Sitemaps
- Troubleshooting
Here are a couple that I thought they should add:
- vertical trends
- keyword trends
- top keywords in search
- notification of inbound links
MSN’s list looks really solid, the kind of tools that every webmaster would want.
Here is some more information from the request to sign up:
In order to provide the highest level of service to our Beta Partners, we will start off the beta program in September with a small number of participants, and incrementally increase the number until all applicants have been accepted by late November.
I eagerly anticipate the results of the new beta.
Do you have any more information about MSN Webmaster Portal?
Are there other tools or information that you would like to see come from MSN?
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i have msn as my web page. i wanted to watch a video about a 4 eared cat. in order to watch it, i was to reinstall msn. why should i do that when i all ready have it? i tried to correct the problem and it wasn’t to my satisfaction. i hope you can help me.