Search Engines Don't Index Content In Office Live's HTML Modules

It doesn’t appear that Googlebot (or other spiders, for that matter) index content inside an HTML module. I’ve always wondered about this, so I decided to test it with my site designerwebsites.org. Here's what I did: First, I typed site:designerwebsites.org in Google. That r... [More]

Why You Can't Prevent Robots from Indexing Your Site

I’ve spent a good deal of time over the last couple of years answering readers’ questions on how to get search engines to index the content on their Office Live web sites. So I was caught a bit off guard when I got a question last week on how to prevent search engines from indexing con... [More]

Why you can't generate RSS feeds with Office Live

A reader e-mailed yesterday asking whether there is a way to generate RSS feeds for his Office Live Small Business web site. To generate RSS feeds, you need to have, among other things, Access to server-side scripting Ability to extract your site's content from Office Live'... [More]

Office Live Backup is "Run Once"!

I noticed a strange thing with Office Live Basics Backup. You can only restore it ONCE. After a restore operation, the Administration page informs you that The Web site does not have any backups yet. So another restore is not possible until OLB makes a new backup sometime in the next 2... [More]