Yeah, it's starting to get a bit redundant, but I'm glad they are still showing an interest. My #1 wish was not an option on Matts blog, more up to date data. I'm sure its a monumental task, but hey I can see a blog post hit all data centers in a matter of hours, they are the data manipulation experts of the world, let's put some CPU power behind the webmaster tools and export real time data. Then we'd have a real "TOOL".
As far as Matt's blog goes, it is in serious need of some tender loving care. It's dominated by a few too many outspoken characters, the comments go off topic after about 10 minutes, he rarely responds to anything thats more than a few days old, there are too many agendas being pushed. It just has the feeling of an abandoned forum lately. I don't doubt his sincerity, work/personal load, but running a very popular website is a responsibility that shouldn't be taken lightly. You owe that to your readers, and I just got the feeling the thing is on autopilot lately. He puts a lot of thought an effort into the posts he makes, but once the discussion starts it get abandoned. Personally I still read what he says but have unsubcribed from the comments because 1) its just too much noise and 2) there are little to no follow ups of any substance, I don't like one sided conversation.
Then again Matt has tens of thousand of subscribers and I have 2, so what do I know? Please disregard previous paragraph.
> He puts a lot of thought an effort into the > posts he makes, but once the discussion starts it get abandoned.
If it's any consolation, I can tell you this: not only does Matt spend a considerable amount of time reading through the comments on his blog, but so do many of us Googlers (and we take notes, yo!). I understand that you'd like it to be more of a conversation, and I'm sure Matt -- if he didn't need to sleep -- would attempt this.
But in the meantime, do be assured that the comments there (like the posts here) are read :-)
Thanks Adam, it was a wish, stream of conscienceous, venting, you take your choice -not something I even remotely expected. I'd imagine he has a mad schedule as I'm sure you all do. He's not a pro-blogger sitting around trying to appease schmucks like me, I don't think he ever intended to be, the information he provides is as valuable as anything out there. It's the only un-official source that isn't 90% speculation but written from authority, and the questions will always out number the answers. I cannot imagine having hundreds of people comment on something I wrote, I wouldn't know where to begin.
I've taken your advice and threw-up (double entendre intended) my comment, turned out kind of negative (sorry about that), but we need some people on the other side sometimes too!
> > He puts a lot of thought an effort into the > > posts he makes, but once the discussion starts it get abandoned.
> If it's any consolation, I can tell you this: not only does Matt > spend a considerable amount of time reading through the comments on > his blog, but so do many of us Googlers (and we take notes, yo!). I > understand that you'd like it to be more of a conversation, and I'm > sure Matt -- if he didn't need to sleep -- would attempt this.
> But in the meantime, do be assured that the comments there (like the > posts here) are read :-)
I voted for the "send Googlebot to a page to see whether it's crawlable" option, because that's an existing tool which hopefully doesn't need too much disarming to make it into the Webmaster console. If Group folks allow a form in a FAQ page this could even get included here. Sebastian
> Thanks Adam, it was a wish, stream of conscienceous, venting, you take > your choice -not something I even remotely expected. I'd imagine he > has a mad schedule as I'm sure you all do. He's not a pro-blogger > sitting around trying to appease schmucks like me, I don't think he > ever intended to be, the information he provides is as valuable as > anything out there. It's the only un-official source that isn't 90% > speculation but written from authority, and the questions will always > out number the answers. I cannot imagine having hundreds of people > comment on something I wrote, I wouldn't know where to begin.
> I've taken your advice and threw-up (double entendre intended) my > comment, turned out kind of negative (sorry about that), but we need > some people on the other side sometimes too!
> On Jul 23, 4:49 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:
> > JLH,
> > > He puts a lot of thought an effort into the > > > posts he makes, but once the discussion starts it get abandoned.
> > If it's any consolation, I can tell you this: not only does Matt > > spend a considerable amount of time reading through the comments on > > his blog, but so do many of us Googlers (and we take notes, yo!). I > > understand that you'd like it to be more of a conversation, and I'm > > sure Matt -- if he didn't need to sleep -- would attempt this.
> > But in the meantime, do be assured that the comments there (like the > > posts here) are read :-)
unfortunately matt's blog post has devolved into a debate over the existance of the -whatever penalty. Again. For about the 950th time. The shine is already off that apple and I hope the GWT people don't waste much of their time reading below the first 100 responses or so. Yawn.
***slight diversion***
Ms. Google, could you PLEASE reintroduce monthly or at least quarterly updates and datacenter differences again? Ever since the cute naming of updates after Bretts favorite after-shave and the endless data center watching threads went away webwhinersworld.com has had nothing to talk about. I suppose there is the endless discussion about how long should your title be or the optimum number for the perfect keyword density, but really, I miss the meaty stuff like "have you checked out data center dixie-dog-toothe-brush-on-fire ? This morning between 7:41 and 7:43 (I'm in England) My totally white hat wonderfully original blue widgets comparison site was number one for its keywords, just like before update Old-Mother-In-Law. I hope that spreads"....wait fifteen minutes...."dixie-dog-toothe-brush-on-fire is back to the old stale results again. Maybe I'll tweak my Meta Descriptions again and see if that changes anything."
***Back to your regularly scheduled random-chit-chat***
> I voted for the "send Googlebot to a page to see whether it's > crawlable" option, because that's an existing tool which hopefully > doesn't need too much disarming to make it into the Webmaster console. > If Group folks allow a form in a FAQ page this could even get included > here. > Sebastian
> On Jul 24, 12:08 am, JLH wrote:
> > Thanks Adam, it was a wish, stream of conscienceous, venting, you take > > your choice -not something I even remotely expected. I'd imagine he > > has a mad schedule as I'm sure you all do. He's not a pro-blogger > > sitting around trying to appease schmucks like me, I don't think he > > ever intended to be, the information he provides is as valuable as > > anything out there. It's the only un-official source that isn't 90% > > speculation but written from authority, and the questions will always > > out number the answers. I cannot imagine having hundreds of people > > comment on something I wrote, I wouldn't know where to begin.
> > I've taken your advice and threw-up (double entendre intended) my > > comment, turned out kind of negative (sorry about that), but we need > > some people on the other side sometimes too!
> > On Jul 23, 4:49 pm, Adam Lasnik wrote:
> > > JLH,
> > > > He puts a lot of thought an effort into the > > > > posts he makes, but once the discussion starts it get abandoned.
> > > If it's any consolation, I can tell you this: not only does Matt > > > spend a considerable amount of time reading through the comments on > > > his blog, but so do many of us Googlers (and we take notes, yo!). I > > > understand that you'd like it to be more of a conversation, and I'm > > > sure Matt -- if he didn't need to sleep -- would attempt this.
> > > But in the meantime, do be assured that the comments there (like the > > > posts here) are read :-)
