Google Webmaster Tools
Last week I was at Google (London) with some of the Webmaster Tools Team, where we traded ideas and features. I did my normal thing of, this would be so cool… but I could also use it for evil if I wanted to….
Anyway I’m back in the office now and checking on how a site move and url restructure is going, then it came to me, how cool would it be if Google showed me :
OK the cool thing is that by Google showing me the IP address for my site, I know what data they are getting is correct and up to date ( evil : yep cloaking is working )
All I need now is the redirect data, Something like :
Anyway those are my ideas while I going though the process of redesigning a site and moving hosts.
What others would you want or need ?
DaveN
Dave Dugdale 2017 days ago
http://www.rentvine.com/default.cfm?cs=350Dave,
I really like your redirect idea. Right now I am redirecting all my subdomains to normal pages after attending the PubCon conference and that would be helpful to see how Google is handing the redirect.
Google if you are reading this, it would be great if you could sort my backlinks in Webmaster Tools so the links of value appear first and then the ones that are nofollowed appear last.
Dave Dugdale
RentVine.com
Rob 2017 days ago
I agree with you DaveN and Dave Dugdale.
Webmaster Central has come a long way with some decent improvements. One thing that could be improved would be more accurate representation of backlinks, similar to Yahoo Site Explorer. As far as I can see Yahoo Site Explorer is the only really decent back link checker, I don’t see what Google think they gain by hiding/not displaying some of the backlinks to a website.
Chris Dohman 2017 days ago
http://northrockpub.comi would like to see them group external links by external domain with a total number of links from each of those domains, then click to expand and see all of those.
also a first found column for external links would be handy.
Igor The Troll 2017 days ago
Hey, guys I found this little toy recently while Trolling for DaveN..:)
It is really neat, me think DaveN building some secret search engine project..
The way it works you plug the url into this weird looking DashBoard and then you walk it, to the domains that you think are relevent to the original domain…
It even speaks to you..:)
Now you can vote each relevent domain up or down…
Now I have lost the domain name of this gadget…
DaveN what are you cooking?
It is like a WiKiDiggSearch.
Matt Cutts 2017 days ago
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/The folks at the London office enjoyed meeting you (I hear), but I’ll also pass this feedback on directly.
SEO blog 2017 days ago
http://www.seonews.itIt will be great if google could publish on WMT the relevance of the pages about a topic and/or geographical target.
Joost de Valk 2017 days ago
http://www.joostdevalk.nlI want them to show anchor text for backlinks, whether the link is nofollow or not, and I want to be able to search through those backlinks…
And I want an API for all of that, and especially to be able to gather the 404′s, 500′s etc through an API would rock my boat. When you’re doing SEO for more than 500 sites as an agency, that would really make your life a lot easier.
Dito 2017 days ago
http://ditoweb.com/blogI wonder why Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics are 2 separate interfaces and not 1 uber-tool?
Fireblade 2017 days ago
Maybe this is the area where the real page rank data should hide?
james hoskins 2017 days ago
http://rivernetworks.co.uk/blog/Joost, you should just sling something together with Yahoo Pipes, Google Webmaster Central, a bit of perl and greasemonkey? Then you can sit back and think about what to have for lunch.
DaveN 2017 days ago
fireblade I had the same thoughts and then quickly moved my thoughts to 301 redirects pushing and pulling juice, until i found myself in a very very dark place, IMO Pagerank is an internal core product it should have never been released to the public, I once said that PR should be updated every QTR.. I think it should be twice maybe once a year
DaveN
Rob 2017 days ago
@ DaveN & Fireblade – Don’t you think perhaps that the PR we see is never the real PR, purely an indication or average? As in, public PR/internal PR aren’t the same. After all it’s out of date by the time we get an update, and I’m sure the real PR is more fluid, fluctuating on a daily basis.
Ian M 2017 days ago
Guest accounts! So you can set up someone else to have access to the site, but you can specify that they can only view stuff and not change anything (plus this access can be disabled if desired). Great for SEO companies that deal with big clients whose internal approval processes can take a long time (months sometimes!)
DaveN 2017 days ago
Rob : that’s exactly what it is TBPR and PR are not the same thing..
Matt Cutts : I did that already with some other stuff
Ian M : yep that would be Cool
DaveN
Wayne Smallman 2016 days ago
http://www.blahblahtech.com/2007/12/google-feedburner-analytics-and-webmaster-tools-should-be-combined.htmlI’m still waiting for Google to merge Google Webmaster Tools with Analytics.
Some of my clients love getting wrist-deep in their Analytics profiles, and would probably come over all unnecessary should they ever get their hands on Google Webmaster Tools…
Fireblade 2016 days ago
My current understanding of PR is that is constantly shifts – the toolbar reporting is pretty much an “average” from update to update and is just a “loose” indication of the page or site. Having said that the perfomance of my site is my business and I would like to see my score sheet behind locked doors. Maybe it could be an option – disply my page rank to the world or set it to private via the tools.
g1smd 2015 days ago
There’s some funny stuff in WebmasterTools.
On the main page, you get a message like “”We last successfully accessed your HomePage on November 10th”", but looking at the cache for the root page, it shows a date from just 3 or 4 days ago. That cache date has also changed about once or twice every week, ever since Google originally found the site a few months ago. The date on the main page has only updated 3 or 4 times in the last 2 or 3 months.
Google has only found one page of the site, as shown in the SERPs using the site: searches, but the WebmasterTools Crawl Stats supposedly show Google pulling between 1 and 5 pages every day. So, all I can think of is that they are accessing the root page up to 5 times per day. However as above, they say they haven’t looked at it for over a month. There’s a discrepency in there somewhere.
There’s no canonical issue going on. Only http://www.example.com/ can be directly accessed. All other versions (non-www, named index pages, URLs with parameters, etc), get a 301 redirect back to http://www.example.com/ and only http://www.example.com/ has ever been promoted in any incoming external links.
xBrain® 1995 days ago
http://webmaster4u.usOne thing that good about this webmaster tools, is that we can know if something wrong with our site or blog.
But the problems is I managed to get most of my desired keywords in the top 10 but I still could not find a way to master in Yahoo or Microsoft..do you have any idea dave?