Since Google gave us the manual action viewer within Webmaster Tools, a tool to see what manual penalties you have on your site, we’ve been asking for an automated action viewer. An Automated Action Viewer will tell you what penalties you’ve been suffering bad from and maybe give you actionable advice on how to make your site better.

Webmasters can be chasing their tails when hit by a Panda, Penguin or other sort of algorithmic penalty (Google doesn’t call algorithms penalties). And it is clear, Google knows which algorithms impact your site more than others. So we want them to bubble up some of that information to webmasters in Google Webmaster Tools.

John Mueller at Google said he is a fan of the idea and they discuss it internally but only under certain conditions. The tool would likely not tell you which algorithm you are impacted but rather give you actionable advice on what changes to make to your site, which would in effect have a positive impact on your site.

The question was asked by Don at 38 minutes and 36 seconds into the video and John spent a nice amount of time answering it. Here is the video and then the transcript of John’s answer:

This would be awesome but like John said, not coming any time soon.

Forum discussion at Google+.