Matt Cutts Wants To Know How You Would Improve Google Webmaster Tools
Matt
Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, published a post on his personal blog today asking for
feedback about how Google can improve Webmaster Tools in 2014.
Google’s
webmaster console allows you to verify your website and be alerted of manual
webspam actions that will directly affect your site.
They
have also improved how they alert users of website security issues, including
resources to help webmasters if their site has been hacked. They have made
improvements to how site owners can view backlinks pointing to their site.
In
addition to improvements made within Google Webmaster Tools, Matt also points
out they have spent dozens of hours doing Google+ Hangouts for websites and
have published around 500 different webmaster videos to help site owners.
Taking
all of that into account, Matt poses the question: “What would you like to
see from Webmaster Tools (or the larger team) in 2014?”
Matt
throws out an entire list of possible suggestions that you can view on his
blog, but I will highlight some of the best ones.
Possible
suggestions could include making Google Authorship markup easier for site
owners, improved reporting of spam and other errors, checklists for new
businesses that are just starting out, tools for reporting duplicate content,
and faster bulk URL removal.
Matt
ends his post with a disclaimer:
To
be clear, this is just some personal brainstorming–I’m not saying that the
Webmaster Tools team will work on any of these. What I’d really like to hear is
what you would like to see in 2014, either in Webmaster Tools
or from the larger team that works with webmasters and site owners.
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