As Peter was first to notice, we have recently made available a preview edition of the Search Engine Optimization module. It's purpose is to help website maintainers and contributors to get insight into SEO related aspects of the site and avoid common errors. To achieve the goal in a very visual way, the module embeds inself in live pages, similar to Sitecore WebEdit.

The only limitation of the preview edition is that it expires on January 1st, 2008. It is of fairly solid beta quality and is avaiable for a download from SDN free of charge, along with documentation. The earlier version is also preinstalled in the latest SC Printers demo site (version 3.0.15)

We're especially interested in feedback at this stage - good or bad, drop us a note: mail to ar at sitecore net, leave a comment or discuss at SDN forum.

To continue with the visual theme, below is a short tour:

Page Information provides a 'big picture' overview.

Text Only View shows the page through the eyes of a search engine. Headings are stressed by larger font size, links are underlined and image alt texts are displayed in [square brackets].

Keywords shows statistics on how often 1, 2 and 3 word combinations are used on the page. It also allows quick search for any of the combinations on major search engines.

Headings, Images and Links list all respective elements found on the page, along with some quick information. Clicking on any element highlights it's actual position on the page.

Errors are easy to spot. They show up on the overview tab and the respective element tab. The coolest part is that the element itself is marked as erroneous on the page itself. Hovering over error marker displays the error information tooltip. The module also checks for broken links and presents them in the same way.

Hope you like it. For more information, please refer to SDN documentation.