Will Google add guest accounts to Webmaster Tools?

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>> CUTTS: Here's a question from Ian M. in the United Kingdom, "Is Google planning to

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create read-only 'guest accounts' for Webmaster Tools? Many clients (particularly in heavily

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regulated industries such as banks) are very reluctant to provide access to a third party."

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Great feature suggestion. I have no idea. Because, you know, the Webmaster Tools Team,

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they have to plan out their resources and what they work on just like any other team,

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and I can see a valid use for this, right? At the same time, there are other things that

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the Webmaster Tools folks are working on that are really, really useful. Some people want,

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you know, infrastructure updates so that back link reports are always rock solid or a new

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data is really, really fresh, and it's hard to play that off. So, it's a valid suggestion.

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I appreciate the suggestion. I don't know what level of priority they'd give that because

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there's probably relatively limited impact compared to making reports rock solid or,

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you know, Open Poll overhauling our UI, things like that that are going to be useful for every

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single person, not just for a smaller fraction. But it's something that I could imagine us

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doing in the future. So we will definitely take that into account and we appreciate the

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suggestion.