{"id":2678,"date":"2007-11-16T20:58:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/authentication-errors-at-microsoft-live-search-webmaster-tools\/"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:13:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T14:43:04","slug":"authentication-errors-at-microsoft-live-search-webmaster-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2007\/11\/authentication-errors-at-microsoft-live-search-webmaster-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentication Errors at Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Live Search Webmaster Center<\/strong> has gone live and is open to webmasters to optimize their site for SEO. Now website owners can take advantage of everything <a href=\"http:\/\/www.live.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Search<\/a> has to offer and get the better search engine results for their website. However, I am getting Authentication Errors when I registered my site&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Tools<\/h3>\n<p>Webmasters can use the <a href=\"http:\/\/webmaster.live.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Webmaster Tools<\/a> to troubleshoot the <strong>crawling and indexing of their websites<\/strong>, submit sitemaps and view statistics about websites. You can also add your website and get some revealing statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Remember you <strong>need a Windows Live ID<\/strong> to get started. If you do not have a MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, or Microsoft Passport account like me, you can use any email ID (I used gmail) to create a Windows Live ID.<\/p>\n<h3>Authentication Errors at Live Search Webmaster Tools<\/h3>\n<p>I tried to add my site several times, but keep getting these authentication errors for the last 2 days. I believe the issue has something to do with site validation and I hope they will fix the bug. Is anyone else getting the same authentication errors?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/live-errors.gif\" alt=\"Live Search Webmaster Tools Errors\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway here are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seroundtable.com\/archives\/015268.html\" rel=\"noopener\">few screenshots<\/a> you can check out at SEO roundtable. Earlier they had offered limited invites for testing Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Portal, now you can go ahead and create your account.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can <strong>SEO optimize<\/strong> your site for the top 3 search engines easily.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/siteoverview?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Webmaster Central<\/a> and Yahoo! Site Explorer already offer similar services to webmasters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 22\/11\/07<\/strong> &#8211; Finally I was able to add my site. It now shows <strong>Domain Rank 5<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/domain-rank.jpg\" alt=\"Domain Rank\" border=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Search Webmaster Center has gone live and is open to webmasters to optimize their site for SEO. Now website&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}