Saturday, May 30, 2009

Authenticate Ownership of Windows Live Spaces in Google Webmaster Central / Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center / Yahoo! Site Explorer

The ownership verification (authentication) of websites in different webmaster tools such as Google Webmaster Central, Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center, and Yahoo! Site Explorer is achieved through either of “upload a file” or “add a meta tag” methods, neither of which is currently possible once you own a Windows Live Spaces account.

I think it’d be necessary to add a feature to Live Spaces so it can add a meta tag to the Space HTML’s HEAD section.

It also might be a good idea for the Spaces to have a special place in the SkyDrive to store “sitemap XML” and “robots.txt” files for the associated Space, but in a simple well-formed URL fashion, unlike current SkyDrive URLs which are madly long and messy (sample).

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