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		<title>By: peppy</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-131029</link>
		<dc:creator>peppy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Greetings Matt,

I personally would like a few of those features:

More information about penalties or other scoring issues: It would be great to know if something is wrong, especially for people who don&#039;t know much about SEO and lack experience, or for more experienced people like me to know if new sites have penalties or they are just crappy and new. It gets a little scary when a site goes from 50 visitors a day to 1 or 2.

Show links on your site that are broken: This is a big one! All there is out there (that I know of) is that Zenu software to check for broken links. EXTREMELY helpful for large sites so I don&#039;t have to manually look at every single link. Problem is, Zenu always times out before it finishes a scan lol, it would be awesome to have this feature in webmaster tools to find what pages these bad links are. It could catch misspelled linking URLs as I make them.

Show causes of 404 errors: This goes hand in hand with finding broken links, especially if I don&#039;t know what pages the broken links are located and it&#039;s a huge site.

Option to &quot;disavow&quot; backlinks from or to a site: This would be an interesting tool because I would like to knock out some bad links that could be coming from hostile competitors or bad neighborhoods. At least I would have a little control over who links to me.

Fetch a page as Googlebot to verify correct behavior: It would be great to see a page through the eyes of Googlebot. The reason is because I had a site a LONG time ago when I was an inexperienced webmaster. My background was that of a repeated background image ON TOP of a white  background. I had white text over this image. The problem is Googlebot probably saw this as white text over white background and I got a major penalty that lasted all year and I had to close up that business. I didn&#039;t notice it for a few months because it came up as white text on a dark picture (which looked sweet by the way). I thought this traffic was &quot;normal&quot; getting 1 or 2 visitors per day but I didn&#039;t know about penalties that whole year and realized that competitors with crappy looking sites and less content than mine were getting 100s of visitors per day. Again, this goes hand in hand with the &quot;More information about penalties or other scoring issues&quot; feature that would help indicate problems!

Those are the features that would help me out the most. Just thought I would throw it out there with my reasoning.

Best</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greetings Matt,</p>
<p>I personally would like a few of those features:</p>
<p>More information about penalties or other scoring issues: It would be great to know if something is wrong, especially for people who don&#8217;t know much about SEO and lack experience, or for more experienced people like me to know if new sites have penalties or they are just crappy and new. It gets a little scary when a site goes from 50 visitors a day to 1 or 2.</p>
<p>Show links on your site that are broken: This is a big one! All there is out there (that I know of) is that Zenu software to check for broken links. EXTREMELY helpful for large sites so I don&#8217;t have to manually look at every single link. Problem is, Zenu always times out before it finishes a scan lol, it would be awesome to have this feature in webmaster tools to find what pages these bad links are. It could catch misspelled linking URLs as I make them.</p>
<p>Show causes of 404 errors: This goes hand in hand with finding broken links, especially if I don&#8217;t know what pages the broken links are located and it&#8217;s a huge site.</p>
<p>Option to &#8220;disavow&#8221; backlinks from or to a site: This would be an interesting tool because I would like to knock out some bad links that could be coming from hostile competitors or bad neighborhoods. At least I would have a little control over who links to me.</p>
<p>Fetch a page as Googlebot to verify correct behavior: It would be great to see a page through the eyes of Googlebot. The reason is because I had a site a LONG time ago when I was an inexperienced webmaster. My background was that of a repeated background image ON TOP of a white  background. I had white text over this image. The problem is Googlebot probably saw this as white text over white background and I got a major penalty that lasted all year and I had to close up that business. I didn&#8217;t notice it for a few months because it came up as white text on a dark picture (which looked sweet by the way). I thought this traffic was &#8220;normal&#8221; getting 1 or 2 visitors per day but I didn&#8217;t know about penalties that whole year and realized that competitors with crappy looking sites and less content than mine were getting 100s of visitors per day. Again, this goes hand in hand with the &#8220;More information about penalties or other scoring issues&#8221; feature that would help indicate problems!</p>
<p>Those are the features that would help me out the most. Just thought I would throw it out there with my reasoning.</p>
<p>Best</p>
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		<title>By: Karl</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-121991</link>
		<dc:creator>Karl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi!

&lt;i&gt; Option to &quot;disavow&quot; backlinks from or to a site &lt;/i&gt;,


because I want let you know that this must be stopped at ounce:

 66.249.65.205 - - [31/Jan/2008:22:28:07 +0100] &quot;GET /graph/Black-Smoker/?ref=SaglikAlani.Com HTTP/1.1&quot; 200 - www.light2art.de &quot;-&quot; &quot;Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)&quot; &quot;-&quot;

or how else can I stop this &lt;i&gt;rumor&lt;/i&gt;?



Greetings Karl</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi!</p>
<p><i> Option to &#8220;disavow&#8221; backlinks from or to a site </i>,</p>
<p>because I want let you know that this must be stopped at ounce:</p>
<p> 66.249.65.205 &#8211; - [31/Jan/2008:22:28:07 +0100] &#8220;GET /graph/Black-Smoker/?ref=SaglikAlani.Com HTTP/1.1&#8243; 200 &#8211; <a href="http://www.light2art.de" rel="nofollow">http://www.light2art.de</a> &#8220;-&#8221; &#8220;Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)&#8221; &#8220;-&#8221;</p>
<p>or how else can I stop this <i>rumor</i>?</p>
<p>Greetings Karl</p>
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		<title>By: Ray Burn</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-115630</link>
		<dc:creator>Ray Burn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yay,

I see that a geo target location tool has been added now - thanks to Matt and the Webmaster Tools team.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/10/better-geographic-choices-for.html

Groovy :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yay,</p>
<p>I see that a geo target location tool has been added now &#8211; thanks to Matt and the Webmaster Tools team.</p>
<p><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/10/better-geographic-choices-for.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/10/better-geographic-choices-for.html</a></p>
<p>Groovy <img src='http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: azuka</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-114597</link>
		<dc:creator>azuka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;More information about penalties&quot; is a great option, because it&#039;s not fair to be penalized and not to know the reason. Also it&#039;s a good idea that G says how much time is the penalty , this way you know if there are hopes or already you are dead. You know, when you don&#039;t have traffic from Google you&#039;re practically Dead.

&quot;Tell Google the correct country or language for a site&quot; is another good point, in some countries  web hosting is really expensive and people get web hosting abroad.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;More information about penalties&#8221; is a great option, because it&#8217;s not fair to be penalized and not to know the reason. Also it&#8217;s a good idea that G says how much time is the penalty , this way you know if there are hopes or already you are dead. You know, when you don&#8217;t have traffic from Google you&#8217;re practically Dead.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tell Google the correct country or language for a site&#8221; is another good point, in some countries  web hosting is really expensive and people get web hosting abroad.</p>
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		<title>By: Leigh</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-112505</link>
		<dc:creator>Leigh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow huge vote for for More information about penalties or other scoring issues. I for one would love this.
 I am one web master who over night dropped into a -50 penalty 4mths ago. I want nothing more than to comply with Google&#039;s guidelines. I have been over everything, changed some things and I am still none the wiser as to what I have done. 
So some extra information and help for people like me is greatly needed!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow huge vote for for More information about penalties or other scoring issues. I for one would love this.<br />
 I am one web master who over night dropped into a -50 penalty 4mths ago. I want nothing more than to comply with Google&#8217;s guidelines. I have been over everything, changed some things and I am still none the wiser as to what I have done.<br />
So some extra information and help for people like me is greatly needed!</p>
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		<title>By: Alex Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-112334</link>
		<dc:creator>Alex Insurance</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very good and interesting post, thank you Matt.

The ones I’d most like to see however are:
1. Tell Google a parameter doesn’t matter
2. Tell Google the correct country or language for a site
3. More information about penalties or other scoring issues
4. Tool to help move from one domain to a new domain</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very good and interesting post, thank you Matt.</p>
<p>The ones I’d most like to see however are:<br />
1. Tell Google a parameter doesn’t matter<br />
2. Tell Google the correct country or language for a site<br />
3. More information about penalties or other scoring issues<br />
4. Tool to help move from one domain to a new domain</p>
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		<title>By: John Webber</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-111373</link>
		<dc:creator>John Webber</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Voted for more info about penalties but I would love to see all of them. You guys are miles ahead of Y &amp; M with the Webmaster Console already, kepp charging ahead eh? :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Voted for more info about penalties but I would love to see all of them. You guys are miles ahead of Y &amp; M with the Webmaster Console already, kepp charging ahead eh? <img src='http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Mt Vernon Matt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mt Vernon Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>1. More information about penalties or other scoring issues (I dropped 30 spots overnight for no reason and I haven&#039;t changed anything in months.  This might help explain such anomalies)

2. Option to &quot;disavow&quot; backlinks from or to a site (Without this isn&#039;t there room for abuse from competitors?)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. More information about penalties or other scoring issues (I dropped 30 spots overnight for no reason and I haven&#8217;t changed anything in months.  This might help explain such anomalies)</p>
<p>2. Option to &#8220;disavow&#8221; backlinks from or to a site (Without this isn&#8217;t there room for abuse from competitors?)</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-111297</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i voted for more info on whats wrong....

i mean its kind of rediculous when they dont answer contact requests, they dont say why sites get gutted and only point to a vague webmaster guideline... how about some reason and details why our site was gutted? or god forbid a way to fix them without waiting from an eternity to an infinite eternity to get the gutting to go away</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i voted for more info on whats wrong&#8230;.</p>
<p>i mean its kind of rediculous when they dont answer contact requests, they dont say why sites get gutted and only point to a vague webmaster guideline&#8230; how about some reason and details why our site was gutted? or god forbid a way to fix them without waiting from an eternity to an infinite eternity to get the gutting to go away</p>
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		<title>By: Shaun Clark</title>
		<link>http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/#comment-111219</link>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Clark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the webmaster&#039;s consol I would like to see the PageRank numbers and the posted time on when the next PageRank update. I have so many customers asking about their PageRanks. Google needs to give us more information.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the webmaster&#8217;s consol I would like to see the PageRank numbers and the posted time on when the next PageRank update. I have so many customers asking about their PageRanks. Google needs to give us more information.</p>
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