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Google Webmaster tools - wish list

I think it would be cool, if

         

Bentler

12:33 am on Apr 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Besides showing which links on my site Googlebot found return 404 errors, I wish their Webmaster tools would display the origin of those links, and also display their site contacts scraped from pages or domain records, so I could send e-mails requesting updates.

It would also be great if contacts cross-referenced to gmail pre-formatted messages, all properly addressed, embedding the from and to URL's in a message I write.

Listings of 301 and 302 redirects would also be useful.

I think these updates would make it easier and have the general effect of improving the quality of the Web. It would enable us to systematically attack linkrot.

What else?

tedster

5:12 pm on Apr 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Listings of 301 and 302 redirects would also be useful.

That would be extremely useful. There's currently no programmatic way to discover if anyone else redirects to your domain, and there's a lot of mayhem because of it.

netmeg

6:41 pm on Apr 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I have multiple customers who for various reasons have multiple domain names pointing to their site. I managed to do some kludging with PHP and robots.txt to make it so that Google only spiders the domain I want spidered, and ignores the others (while still leaving it functional for browsers) but MY life would be made much easier if I could go into my handy dandy Webmaster Tools console and tell Google that Domain1, Domain2 and Domain3 all point to a site, but please only spider Domain1 and ignore the others.

I know, I know. But a girl can dream, can't she?