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Presenting at ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas

Next week I will be presenting at the ASP.NET Connections event in Las Vegas the following topics: AMS04: Boost Your Site’s Search Ranking with the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit : Search engines are just robots, and you have to play by their...

Adding IIS Manager Users and Permissions using PowerShell

Today somebody ask in the IIS.net Forums how could they automate the process of adding IIS Manager Users and their Permissions using a script or a command line and I thought it would be useful to post something that hopefully will be easy to find and...

IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit – Announcing Beta 2

Yesterday we released the Beta 2 version of the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit . This version builds upon Beta 1 adding a set of new features and several bug fixes reported through the SEO forum : Report Comparison . Now you have the ability...

SEO Tip - Beware of the Login pages - add them to Robots Exclusion

A lot of sites today have the ability for users to sign in to show them some sort of personalized content, whether its a forum, a news reader, or some e-commerce application. To simplify their users life they usually want to give them the ability to log...

Finding malware in your Web Site using IIS SEO Toolkit

The other day a friend of mine who owns a Web site asked me to look at his Web site to see if I could spot anything weird since according to his Web Hosting provider it was being flagged as malware infected by Google. My friend (who is not technical at...

IIS SEO Tip - Do not stress your server, limit the number of concurrent requests

The other day somebody ask me if there was a way to limit the amount of work that Site Analysis in IIS SEO Toolkit would cause to the server. This is interesting for a couple of reasons, You might want to reduce the load that Site Analysis cause to your...

Redirects, 301, 302 and IIS SEO Toolkit

In the URL Rewrite forum somebody posted the question " are redirects bad for search engine optimization ?". The answer is: not necessarily, Redirects are an important tool for Web sites and if used in the right context they actually are a required...

Canonical Formats and Query Strings - IIS SEO Toolkit

Today somebody was running the IIS SEO Toolkit and using the Site Analysis feature flagged a lot of violations about "The page contains multiple canonical formats.". The reason apparently is that he uses Query String parameters to pass contextual...

Are you caching your images and scripts? IIS SEO can tell you

One easy way to enhance the experience of users visiting your Web site by increasing the perceived performance of navigating in your site is to reduce the number of HTTP requests that are required to display a page. There are several techniques for achieving...

Announcing: IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit Beta 1

Today we are releasing the IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit . The IIS SEO Toolkit is a set of features that aim to help you keep your Web site and its content in good shape for both Users and Search Engines. The features that are included in this...

IIS Manager Online Help Link gets updated

While using IIS Manager, did you ever wondered what configuration section is this UI changing? Is there a way I could automate this using scripts or command line? Well, if you use IIS Manager 7.0 you might have noticed that we have a link in every page...

Calling Web Services from Silverlight using IIS 7.0 and ARR

During this PDC I attended Ian's presentation about WPF and Silverlight where he demonstrated the high degree of compatibility that can be achieved between a WPF desktop application and a Silverlight application. One of the differences that he demonstrated...

Creating a Setup Project for IIS Extensions using Visual Studio 2008

Introduction IIS 7 provides a rich extensibility model, whether extending the server or the user interface, one critical thing is provide a simple setup application that can install all the required files, add any registration information required, and...

Microsoft Web Platform Installer Beta Released

Today we are releasing a new Web Site at http://www.microsoft.com/web/ where users can get a one stop shop for learning about the Microsoft Web Platform. This is part of a bigger effort to make it easier to get started with building and running Web Applications...

Using IIS Manager Users Authentication in your Web Application

Today in the IIS.NET Forums a question was asked if it was possible to use the same IIS Manager Users authentication in the context of a Web Application so that you could have say something like WebDAV using the same credentials as you use when using...

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