“I’m Comin’ to Get Ya …”

Famous line sung by Jimmy Hendrix … and with Vanessa Fox (”Foxy Lady”) hanging it up with Google and moving on to a new gig, it is appropriate to quote it here. With the news of Fox moving on it comes at no surprise that the reason that Google Webmaster Central has sucked so bad recently with NO UPDATES is a lack of focus from the team that Fox headed.

I like Vanessa, I think she is brilliant, but no one can argue that when a new gig presents itself, that no matter how much you focus, your “all” just isn’t the same as it was. That is just human nature.

Enough of that, let’s discuss what is going on with Google Webmaster Tools. Okay, so they just updated the information, which is great, but it is a little late. While I understand the “well it’s free what do you expect?” comments, they don’t hold any water. While I agree I am not paying Google for this information, I am supplying them with a TON of information which I feel is a win-win for both parties. They SHOULD update the link information more than once every two months. They SHOULD tell me when GoogleBot visits pages OTHER than my home page. And what happened with informing me which page has the highest PageRank on my site?

Even my “query” stats have been stale … on average of 7-10 or so. While it is still great information, it used to be updated quickly … but no longer. If MSN and Yahoo! really want to steal some thunder here, they should launch a better service and you might see a lot of webmasters jumping.

Well, Yahoo! and MSN would need more market share of course.

The bottom line is, hopefully with a new person in charge, we can get Webmaster Central back on track and get the information that we need in order to make our websites as successful as possible. Now that there have been updates, I will show the members of the SEO Revolution how to make the most of Webmaster Central.