A Festivus for our webmasterus

Friday, December 21, 2007

If it’s good enough for the Costanzas, it’s good enough for Webmaster Central: it’s time for a
Festivus for the rest of us
(webmasterus)!

Our special celebration begins not with carols and eggnog, but by remembering some of the popular
Webmaster Tools
features—make that Feats of Strength —for 2007. This year, you gained the
ability to
chickity-check out your backlinks
(<– that’s Festivus-inspired anchor text) and tell Google you want
out with
URL Removal. And let’s
not forget Message Center
and IDNA support, perfect
for those times when [a-zA-Z0-9-] just doesn’t cut it.

Feel the power! Festivus Feats of Strength!

Now comes our webmaster family’s traditional Airing of Grievances. You can air your woes
and “awww man!”s in the comments below. Just remember that bots may crawl this blog, but we
humans review the comments, so please keep your grievances constructive.
🙂 Let us know about features you’d like implemented in Webmaster
Tools, articles you’d like written in our blog or Help Center, and stuff you’d like to see in the
discussion group. Bonus points if you also explain how your suggestion helps the whole Internet,
not just your site’s individual rankings. (But of course, we understand that your site ranking
number one for all queries in all regions is truly, objectively good for everyone.)

Last, there are so many Festivus Miracles to share! Such as the many
helpful members of the discussion group
from all around the world, the new friendships formed between Susan Moskwa, JohnMu, Wysz, Matt D,
Bergy, Patrick, Nathanj and so many webmasters, and the fun of chatting with our
video watchers,
fellow conference attendees,
and those in the blogosphere keepin’ it real.

On behalf of the entire Webmaster Central team, here’s to you, Festivus Miracle and Time
Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006—happy holidays. See you in 2008.
🙂

Written by Maile Ohye