Vote For The Next New Google Webmaster Central Feature

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Jul. 23, 2007 at 8:49am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Vote For The Next New Google Webmaster Central Feature

Matt Cutts of Google has invited people to vote on the next possible Google Webmaster Central feature.

The available features on the poll include:

Tell Google the correct country or language for a site
Show causes of 404 errors
Show links on your site that are broken
Tool to help move from one domain to a new domain
More documentation and examples
Diagnostic wizard for common site problems
Tools for detecting or reporting duplicate content
Score the crawlability or accessibility of pages
More information about penalties or other scoring issues
Ability to show/download all pages from a site (e.g. if your server crashed)
Some type of rank checking
Show PageRank numbers instead of none/low/medium/high
Show pages that don't validate
Tell Google a parameter doesn't matter
A way to list supplemental result pages
Integrate "Add URL" feature
Option to "disavow" backlinks from or to a site
Fetch a page as Googlebot to verify correct behavior

Currently with 303 votes, "More information about penalties or other scoring issues" is winning, followed by "Tools for detecting or reporting duplicate content" and then "Tool to help move from one domain to a new domain."

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Reader Comments

Instead of broken links on my site, I'd like to see broken links *to* my site. Those are harder to find because I can't run Xenu on the entire web.

Comment by JEHochman

| July 23, 2007 12:18 PM

Jonathan, webmaster tools gives you that already with the crawl errors report. The list of 404 errors are the links that Googlebot found to your site that lead to non-existent pages. Your wish has been granted. :)

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| July 23, 2007 10:43 PM

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