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 […]

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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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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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