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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