Today we are announcing the final release of the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit v1.0. This version builds upon the Beta 1 and Beta 2 versions and is 100% compatible with those versions so any report you currently have continues to work in the new version. The new version includes a set of bug fixes and new features such as:

  1. Extensibility. In this version we are opening a new set of API's to allow you to develop extensions for the crawling process, including the ability to augment the metadata in the report with your own, extend the set of tasks provided in the Site Analysis and Sitemaps User Interface and more. More on this on a upcoming post.
  2. New Reports. Based on feedback we added a Redirects summary report in the Links section as well as a new Link Depth report that allows you to easily know which pages are the "most hidden pages" in your site, or in other words if a user landed at your sites home page, "how many clicks does he need to do to reach a particular page".
  3. New Routes Query. We added a new type of Query called Routes. This is the underlying data that powers the "Link Depth" report mentioned above, however it is also exposed as a new query type so that you can create your own queries to customize the Start page and any other kind of things, like filtering, grouping, etc.
  4. New option to opt-out from keeping a local cache of files. We added a new switch in the "Advanced Settings" of the New Analysis dialog to disable the option of keeping the files stored locally. This allows you to run a report which runs faster and that consumes a lot less disk space than when keeping the files cached. The only side effect is that you will not be able to get the "Content" tab and the contextual position of the links as well as the Word Analysis feature. Everything else continues to work just as any other report.
  5. HTML Metadata is now stored in the Report. By leveraging the Extensibility mentioned in bullet 1, the HTML parser now stores all the HTML META tags content so that you can later use them to write your own queries, whether to filter, group data or just export it, this gives you a very interesting set of options if you have any metadata like Author, or any custom.
  6. Several Bug Fixes:
    1. Internal URLs linked by External URLs now are also included in the crawling process.
    2. Groupings in queries should be case sensitive
    3. Show contextual information (link position) in Routes
    4. The Duplicate detection logic should only include valid responses (do not include 404 NOT Found, 401, etc)
    5. Canonical URLs should support sub-domains.
    6. Several Accessibility fixes. (High DPI, Truncation in small resolutions, Hotkeys, Keyboard navigation, etc).
    7. Several fixes for Right-To-Left languages. (Layout and UI)
    8. Help shortcuts enabled.
    9. New Context Menus for Copying content
    10. Add link position information for Canonical URLs
    11. Remove x-javascript validation for this release
    12. Robots algorithm should be case sensitive
    13. many more

This version can upgrade both Beta 1 and Beta 2 version so go ahead and try it and PLEASE provide us with feedback and any additional things you would like to see for the next version at the SEO Forum in the IIS Web site.

Click here to install the IIS SEO Toolkit.